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j ^' A Eelic of the Kebellion " is the title of tliis little publication, 
it being, as stated hereinbefore, a reproduction of The 
Neio York Herald, relating the most important events of the Rebellion, 
which terminated twenty-six years ago. 

\ To whatever extent this little volume may contribute to revive 

the interest in the past, I hope it will be a welcome guest to the 
American people, North and South, East and West. 

The news of the Assassination of President Lincoln spread a mantle 
of grief over the entire nation and produced a general mourning as no 
similar event recorded in history has ever done before. Mr. Lincoln 
had during his administration achieved the respect and admiration of 
his country, besides gaining the universal, heartfelt sympathy of 
all. He was looked upon as the embodiment of all those features 
of our institutions which, theoretically, place all of our citizens on a 
political equality, and open the doors of the highest places of power 
and trust to the humblest amongst us. 

This little work, though brief, will be found very instructive and 
interesting, as well to the aged as to the young ; to the aged because it 
recalls facts they are acquainted with, instructive to the young because 
it relates facts they have heard of. 

Feeling confident that all true Americans will accept this as a 
relic and a reminder of the direst event any nation ever bowed under, 
and hoping it may meet the approval of all, I cordially present it 
to the public, 

J. H. WINSTON. 



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IMPORTANT. 



Issassination of President 
Lincoln. 

The President Shot at the Theatre 
Last Evening.— Secretary Sew^ard 
Daggered in His Bed, but Not Mor- 
tally "WTounded.— Clarence andFred- 
erick Sew^ard Badly Hurt.— Escape 
of the Assassins.— Intense Excite- 
ment in "Washington.— Scene at the 
Deathbed of Mr. Lincoln.— J. "Wilkes 
Booth, the Actor, the Alleged As- 
sassin of the President.— The Of- 
ficial Despatch. 

War-Department, ) 
Washington, April 15— 1:30 A.M. j 

Major-General Dix, New York — 

This evening at about 9.30 P. M., 
at Ford's Theatre, the President, 
while sitting in his private box with 
Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Harris and Major 
Eathburn, was shot by an assassin, 
who suddenly entered the box and 
approached behind the president. 

The assassin then leaped upon 
the stage, brandishing a large dag- 
ger or knife, and made his escape in 
the rear of the theatre. 

The pistol ball entered the back 
of the President's head and pene- 
trated nearly through the head. 
The wound is mortal. 

The President has been insensible 
ever since it was inflicted, and is 
now dying. 

About the same hour an assassin, 
whether the same or not, entered 
Mr. Seward's apartments, and under 
pretence of ha^dng a prescription 
was shown to the Secretary's sick 



chamber. The assassin immediately 
rushed to the bed and inflicted two 
or three stabs on the throat and 
two on the face. 

It is hoped the wounds may not 
be mortal. My apprehension is 
that they will prove fatal. 

The nurse alarmed Mr. Frederick 
Seward, who was in an adjoining 
room, and he hastened to the door 
of his father's room, when he met 
the assassin, who inflicted upon 
him one or more dangerous wounds. 
The recovery of Frederick Seward 
is doubtful. 

It is not probable that the Presi- 
dent wiU live through the night. 

General Grant and wife were ad- 
vertised to be at the theatre this 
evening, but he started to Bui'ling- 
ton at six o'clock this evening. 

At a Cabinet meeting, at which 
General Grant was present, the 
subject of the state of the country 
and the prospect of a speedy peace 
were discussed. The President was 
very cheerful and hopefid, and 
spoke very kindly of General Lee 
and others of the confederacy, and 
of the establishment of government 
in Virginia. 

All the members of the Cabinet 
except Mr. Seward, are now in 
attendance upon the President. 

I have seen Mr. Seward, but he 
and Frederick were both uncon- 



scious. 



Edwin M. Stanton, 

Secretan^ of War. 



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THE HERALD DISPATCHES. 



Washington, April 14, 1865. 
Assassination has been inaugur- 
ated in Washington. The bowie 
knife and pistol have been applied 
to President Lincoln and Secretary 
Seward. The former was shot in 
the throat, while at Ford's theatre 
to-night. Mr. Seward was badly 
cut about the neck, while in his bed 
at his residence. 

SECOND DISPATCH. 

Washington, April 14, 1865, 
An attempt was made about ten 
o'clock this evening to assassinate 
the President and Secretary Seward. 
The President was shot at Ford's 
Theatre. Result not yet known. 
Mr. Seward's throat was cut, and 
his son badly wounded. 
There is intense excitement here. 



Details of tlie Assassination. 

Washington, April 14, 1865. 

Washington was thrown into an 
intense excitement a few minutes 
before eleven o'clock this evening, 
by the announcement that the 
President and Secretary Seward 
hiid been assassinated and were 
dead. 

The wildest excitement prevailed 
in all parts of the city. Men, 
women and children, old and 
young, rushed to and fro, and the 
rumors were magnified until we 
had nearly every member of the 
Cabinet killed. Some time elajDsed 
before authentic data could be as- 
certained in regard to the affair. 

The President and Mrs. Lincoln 
were at Ford's theatre, listening to 
the performance of the American 
30usin, occupying a box in the 
second tier. At the close of the 



third act a person entered the box 
occupied by the President, and 
shot Mr. Lincoln in the head. The 
shot entered the back of his head, 
came out above the temple. 

The assassin then jumped from 
the box upon the stage and ran 
across to the other side, exhibiting 
a dagger in his hand, flourishing it 
in a tragical manner, shouting the 
same words repeated by the des- 
perado at Mr. Seward's house, add- 
ing to it, " The South is avenged," 
and then escaped from the back en- 
trance to the stage, but in his pas- 
sage dropped his pistol and his hat. 

Mr. Lincoln fell forward from his 
seat, and Mrs. Lincoln fainted. 

The moment the astonished audi- 
ence could realize what had haj)- 
pened, the President w^as taken and 
carried to Mr. Peterson's house, in 
Tenth street, opposite to the theatre. 
Medical aid was immediately sent 
for, and the wound was at first sup- 
posed to be fatal, and it was an- 
nounced that he could not live, but 
at half -past twelve he is still alive, 
though in a precarious condition. 

As the assassin ran across the 
stage, Colonel J. B. Steward, of this 
city, who was occupjang one of the 
front seats in the orchestra, on the 
same side of the house as the box 
occupied by Mr. Lincoln, sprang to 
the stage and followed himj but 
he was obstructed m his passage 
across the stage by the fright of 
the actors, and reached the back- 
door about three seconds after the 
assassin had passed out. Colonel 
Steward got to the street just in 
time to see him mount his horse 
and ride away. 

This operation shows that the 



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whole thing was a preconcerted 
plan. The person who fired the 
pistol was a man about thirty years 
of age, about five feet nine, spare 
built, fail' skin, dark hair, ap- 
parently bushy, with a large mus- 
tache. Laui'a Keene and the leader 
of the orchestra declare that they 
recognized him as J. Wilkes, the 
actor, and a rabid secessionist. 
Whoever he was, it is plainly evi- 
dent that he thoroughly understood 
the theatre and all its approaches 
and modes of escape to the stage. 
A person not familiar with the 
theatre could not have possibly 
made his escape so well and quick- 

ly- 

The alarm was sounded in every 
quarter. Mr. Stanton was notified, 
and immediately left his house. 

All the other members of the 
Cabinet escaped attack. 

Cavalrymen were sent out in all 
directions, and dispatches sent to all 
the fortifications, and it is thought 
they will be captured. 

About half past ten o'clock this 
evening a taU, well dressed man 
made his appearance at Secretary 
Seward's residence, and applied for 
admission. He was refused admis- 
sion by the servant, when the des- 
perado stated that he had a pre- 
scription from the Surgeon General, 
and that he was ordered to deliver 
it in person. He was still refused, 
except upon the wiitten order of 
the physician. This he pretended 
to show, and pushed by the servant 
and inished up stairs to Mr. Sew- 
ard's room. He was met at the 
door by Mr. Fred. Seward, who 
notified him that he was master of 
the house, and would take charge 



of the prescription. After a few words 
had passed between them, he 
dodged by Fred. Seward and rushed 
to the Secretary's bed, and struck 
him in the neck with a dagger, and 
also in the breast. 

It was supposed at first that Mr. 
Seward was killed instantly, but it 
was found afterwards that the 
wound was not mortal. 

Major Wm. H. Seward, Jr., pay- 
master, was in the room, and rushed 
to the defence of his father, and 
was badly cut in the melee with the 
assassin, but not fatally. 

The desperado managed to es- 
cape from the house, and was pre- 
pared for escape by having a horse 
at the door. He immediately 
mounted his horse, and sung out 
the motto of the State of Virginia, 
" Sic Semper Tyrannis ! " and rode 
off. 

Surgeon General Barnes was im- 
mediately sent for, and he examined 
31r. Seward and pronounced him, safe. 
His wounds were not fatal. The 
jugular vein was not cut, nor the 
wound in the breast deep enough 
to be fatal. 



Washington, April 15—1 A. M. 

The streets in the vicinity of 
Ford's Theatre are densely crowded 
by an anxious and excited crowd. 
A guard has been placed across 
Tenth street and F and E streets, 
and only official persons and par- 
ticular friends of the President are 
allowed to pass. 

The popular heart is deeply 
stirred and the deepest indignation 
against leading rebels is freely ex- 
pressed. 

The scene at the house where the 



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President lies in extremis is very 
affecting. Even Secretary Stanton 
is affected to tears. 

When the news spread through 
the city that the President had 
"been shot, the people, with pale 
faces and compressed lips, crowded 
every place where there was the 
slightest chance of obtaining in- 
formation in regard to the affair. 

After the President was shot, 
Lieutenant Rathburn caught the as- 
.sasin by the arm, who immediately 



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struck him with a knife, and jumped 
from the box as before stated. 

The popular affection for Mr. Lin- 
coln has been shown by this diaboli- 
cal assassination, which will bring 
eternal infamy, not only upon its 
authors, but upon the hellish cause 
which they desire to avenge. 

Vice-President Johnson arrived 
at the White House, where the 
President lies, about one o'clock, 
and will remain with him to the 
last. 

The President's family are in at- 
tendance upon him also. 

As soon as intelligence could be 
got to the War Department, the 
electric Telegraph and Signal corps 
were put in requisition to endeavor 
to prevent the escape of the assas- 
sins, and all the troops around 
Washington are under arms. 

Popular report points to a some- 
what celebrated actor of known 
secession proclivities as the assas- 
sin 5 but it would be unjust to name 
him until further evidence of his 
guilt is obtained. It is rumored 
that the person alluded to is in cus- 
tody. 

The latest advices from Secretary 
Seward reveals more desperate 



work there than at first supposed. 
Seward's wounds are not in them- 
selves fatal, but, in connection with 
his recent injuries, and the great 
loss of blood he has sustained, his 
recovery is questionable. 

It was Clarence A. Seward, in- 
stead of Wm. H. Seward, Jr., who 
was wounded. Fred. Seward was 
also badly cut, as were also three 
nurses, who were in attendance 
upon the Secretar}', showing that a 
desperate struggle took place there. 
The wounds of the whole party 
were dressed. 



One O'CLOCK A. M. 

The President is perfectly sense- 
less, and there is not the slightest 
hope of his surviving. Physicians 
believe that he will die before morn- 
ing. All of his Cabinet, except 
Secretary Seward, are with him. 
Speaker Colfax, Senator Farwell, 
of Maine, and many other gentle- 
men, are also at the house await- 
ing the termination. 

The scene at the President's bed- 
side is described by one who wit- 
nessed it as most affecting. It was 
surrounded by his Cabinet ministers, 
aU of whom were bathed in tears, 
not even excepting Mr. Stanton, 
who, when informed by Surgeon 
General Barnes that the President 
could not live until morning, ex- 
claimed, " Oh, no, General, no — 
noj" and with an impulse natural 
as it was unaffected, immediately 
set down on a chair near his bed- 
side and wept like a child. 

Senator Sumner was seated on 
the right of the President's couch, 
near the head, holding the right 
hand of the President in his own. 



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He was sobbing like a woman, 
with his head bowed down almost 
on the edge of the bed on which the 
President was lying. 



Two O'CLOCK A. M. 
The President is still alive, but 
there is no improvement in his con- 
dition. 



THE PRESS DESPATCHES. 

Washington, April 15 — 1 A. M. 

The President was shot in a the- 
atre to-night, and is perhaps mor- 
tally wounded. 

SECOND DESPATCH. 

Washington, April 15—1 A. M. 

The President is not expected to 
live through the night. He was 
shot at the theatre. 

Secretary Seward was also assas- 
sinated. No arteries were cut. 



Additional Details of the Assassina- 
tion. 

Washington, April 15-1.30 A. M. 

President Lincoln and wife, with 
other friends this evening visited 
Ford's Theatre, for the purpose of 
witnessing the performance of the 
American cousin. 

It was announced in the papers 
that General Grant would also be 
present ; but that gentleman took 
the late train of cars for New Jer- 
sey. 

The theatre was densely crowded, 
and all seemed delighted with the 
scene before them. During the 
thii'd act, and while there was a 
temporary pause for one of the 
actors to enter, a sharp report of a 
pistol was heard, which merely at- 
tracted attention, but suggested 
nothing serious, until a man rushed 



to the front of the President's box, 
waving a long dagger in his right 
hand, and exclaiming, '' Sic semper 
tyrannis,''' and immediately leaped 
from the box, which was on the 
second tier, to the stage beneath, 
and ran across to the opposite side, 
making his escape, amid the bewil- 
dered state of the audience, from 
the rear of the theatre, and mount- 
ing a horse, fled. 

The screams of Mrs. Lincoln first 
disclosed the fact to the audie^j^e 
that the President had been shot, 
when all present rose to their feet, 
rushing towards the stage, many 
exclaiming " Hang him ! Hang 
him ! " 

The excitement was of the wild- 
est possible description, and, of 
coui'se, there was an abrupt termi- 
nation of the theatrical perform- 
ance. 

There was a rush toward the 
President's box, when cries were 
heard : — " Stand back and give him 
air." " Has any one stimulants 1 " 

On a hasty examination it was 
found that the President had been 
shot through the head above and 
back of the temporal bone, and that 
some of the brain was oozing out. 

He was removed to a private 
house opposite the theatre, and the 
Surgeon General of the army and 
other surgeons were sent for to at- 
tend to his condition. 

On an examination of the private 
box blood was discovered on the 
back of the cushioned rocking chair 
on which the President had been 
sitting, also on the partition and on 
the floor. A common single-bar- 
relled pocket pistol was found on 
the carpet. 



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A military guard was placed in 
front of the private residence to 
which the President had been con- 
veyed. An immense crowd was in 
front of it, all deeply anxious to 
learn the condition of the President. 
It had been previously announced 
that the wound was mortal, but all 
hoped otherwise. The shock to the 
community was terrible. 

At midnight the Cabinet, with 
Messrs. Sumner, Colfax and Farns- 
worth. Judge Curtis, Governor 
Oglesby, General Meigs, Colonel 
Hay, and afewpersonal friends, with 
Surgeon General and his immediate 
assistants, were around his bedside. 

The President was in a state of 
syncope, totally insensible, and 
breathing slowly. The blood oozed 
from the wound at the back of his 
head. 

The surgeons exhausted every 
possible effort of medicinal skill, 
but all hope was gone. 

The parting of his family with 
the dying President is too sad for 
description. 

The President and Mrs. Lincoln 
did not start for the theatre until 
fifteen minutes after eight o'clock. 
Speaker Colfax was at the White 
House at the time, and the Presi- 
dent stated to him that he was go- 
ing. Mrs. Lincoln had not been 
well, because the papers had an- 
nounced that General Grant and 
they were to be present, and, as 
General Grant had gone North, he 
did not wish the audience to be dis- 
appointed. 

He went with apparent reluc- 
tance, and urged Mr. Colfax to go 
with him, but that gentleman had 
made other engagements, and with 



Mr. Ashmun, of Massachusetts, bid 
him goodby. 

When the excitement at the the- 
atre was at iti wildest height re- 
ports were circulated that Secretary 
Seward had also been assassinated. 

On reaching this gentleman's 
residence a crowd and a military 
guard were found at the door, and 
on entering it was ascertained that 
the reports were based on truth. 

Everybody there was so excited 
that scarcely an intelligible word 
could be gathered. But the facts 
are substantially as follows : — 

About ten o'clock a man rang the 
bell, and the call having been an- 
swered by a colored servant, he 
said he had come from Dr. Verdi,, 
Secretary Seward's family physi- 
cian, with a prescription, at the 
same time holding in his hand a 
small piece of folded paper, and say- 
ing, in answer to a refusal, that he 
must see the Secretary, as he was 
entrusted with particular directions 
concerning the medicine. 

He still insisted on going up, al- 
though repeatedly informed that no 
one could enter the chamber. The 
man pushed the servant aside, and 
walked hastily towards the Secre- 
tary's room, and was then met by 
Mr. Frederick Seward, of whom he 
demanded to see the Secretary, 
making the same representation 
which he did to the servant. 

What further passed in the way 
of colloquy is not known; but the 
man struck him on the head with a 
billy, severely injuring the skull 
and felling him almost senseless. 

The assassin then rushed into 
the chamber and attacked Major 
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Army, and Mr. Hansell, a messen- 
ger of the State Department, and 
two male nurses, disabling them all. 

He then rushed upon the Secre- 
tary, who was lying in bed in the 
same room, and inflicted three 
stabs in the neck, but severing, it 
is thought and hoped, no arteries, 
though he bled profusely. 

The assassin then rushed down 
stairs, mounted his horse at the 
door, and rode off before an alarm 
could be sounded and in the same 
manner as the assassin of the Presi- 
dent. 

It is believed that the injuries of 
the Secretary are not fatal, nor 
those of either of the others, al- 
though both the Secretary and the 
Assistant Secretary are very seri- 
ously injured. 

Secretary Stanton and "Wellee, 
and other prominent officers of the 
Government called at Secretary 
Seward's house to inquire into his 
condition and there heard of the 
assassination of the President. 

They then proceeded to the 
house, where he was lying, exhibit- 
ing of course intense anxiety and 
solicitude. An immense crowd was 
gathered in front of the President's 
house, and a strong guard was also 
stationed there. Many persons evi- 
dently supposing he would be 
brought to his home. 

The entire city to-night presents 
a scene of wild excitement, accom- 
panied by violent expressions of in- 
dignation and the profoundest sor- 
row ; many shed tears. 

The military authorities have de- 
spatched mounted . patrols in every 
direction, in order, if possible, to 
arrest the assassins. The whole 



metropolitan police are likewise 
vigilant for the same purpose. 

The attacks, both at the theatre 
and at Secretary Seward's house^ 
took place at about the same hour — 
ten o'clock — thus showing a precon- 
certed plan to assassinate those 
gentlemen. Some evidences of the 
guilt of the party who attacked the 
President are in the possession of 
the police. 

Vice-President Johnson is in the 
city and his headquarters are 
guarded by troops. 



THE STATE CAPITAL 



Rejection of the tiew York Fire 
Commissloiieps, — Passage of tlie 
Central Railroad Fair Bill.— Great 
Excitement Over tlie Healtbi Bill, 
&c. 

Albany, April 14—11.40 P. M. 

Legislation each day is now so 
rapid here that a detail or analysis 
of its progress is out of the ques- 
tion. To-day the long pending 
Central Railroad bill passed the 
Senate, and is virtually a law if the 
Governor does not veto it. But the 
result may be forshadowed in the 
veto sent in to-day of the Dry Dock 
and Battery Railroad. 

The Health bill, which two days 
since was bound by caucus rules to 
have a sure passage, was to-night 
defeated by Republican votes. The 
Collector of the port of New York, 
who has had an elaborate organiza- 
tion up for his retention in the office 
of Commissioner of Charities, was 
thrown overboard and the power of 
all his patronage disregarded in the 
strife to secure this position which 
has been his pet desire and special- 



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ty for many years. All these oc- 
currences have a political signifi- 
cancy which it would take too 
much time and space to develop. 
The excitement of the day has been 
the Health bill, and that excite- 
ment has been so incoherent as to 
be indescribable. The attempt made 
last night to kill off the bill was re- 
newed to-day at an early hour. It 
has been lost for want of a sufficient 
vote, and laid on the table for re- 
consideration. A motion was made 
to call it up for a final vote a short 
time after the reading of the 
Journal, by its opponents. The 
tactics against the measure were 
led by Weed, of Clinton, in whose 
fresh abilities the democrats have 
gained their ablest accession in this 
Legislature. He moved to take 
from the table, and upon that the 
previous question. The vote of 
fifty-three to sixty-one disclosed the 
fact that the friends of the bill were 
in the minority, and a panic at once 
was created among them. An 
adroit suggestion was sent to the 
Speaker — understood to be from 
Henry J. Raymond who was on the 
floor— to rule that his vote did not 
carry the bill, and another must be 
taken. Mr. Van Buren, of Nevr 
York, moved to adjourn, which the 
Speaker overruled amidst the 
greatest uproar. Weed and others 
insisting that such an action was 
out of order. 

While the vote was being taken a 
few more republicans were drum- 
med up, and the motion carried by 
one or two votes. Hereupon the 
wildest scenes of confusion took 
place, all the members gathered in 
a crowd before the Speakei*'s desk 



in the most excited condition, shout- 
ing, disputing and threatening 
each other and the Speaker. One 
member from New York got upon a 
desk, and in the midst of a clamor 
for bets, offered at a thousand dol- 
lars, shouted and taunted the re- 
publicans, daring any man to bet. 
He shook his two fists with hands- 
full of greenbacks. Others clamored 
in like manner, and the scene re- 
sembled the most exciting days at 
the gold room in New York. In 
the midst of all this were heard the 
clapping of hands and the triumph- 
ant imitations of the mock chanti- 
cleer of the republicans, while the 
democrats uttered the most violent 
denunciations of the Speaker to 
his face for his rulings. 

This scene was disposed of only 
to be reproduced for the evening 
session. Mr. Weed renewed his 
assaults upon the bill to bring it to 
a final vote, while its diminished 
friends sought to postpone this 
action. Messrs. Van Buren, Stuart, 
Reed, Brandreth, Wood and Parker 
sought alternately to postpone or 
to kill time by filibustering, after 
prolonged, excited and most dis- 
orderly proceedings. 

A final vote was forced upon the 
friends of the bill at a late hour. 
Sixty-one voted for the biU and 
fifty-one against it. Sixty-five 
votes being necessary to its pas- 
sage, it was lost. Mr. Salmon, of 
New York, who had made himself 
obnoxious by the vehemency of his 
opposition to the bill, was sought 
to be involved in proceedings 
before the bar of the House ; but 
the Speaker was e\ddently discour- 
aged from any such attempts. The 



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management for the bill on the 
floor of the House was understood 
to be in the hands of the radicals, 
under the lead of Fields, Boole was 
in the lobby in person. Mayor 
Gunther, Carr and others of his 
opponents were here yesterday to 
urge on the passage of the bill. It 
is alleged that the Republican in- 
terest was sold out by the Radicals. 

The Fire Commissioners encoun- 
tered a decided capsize in executive 
session. The defeat of the Health 
bill was pending on their considera- 
tion, and the Assembly had ad- 
joui'ned in the extraordinary man- 
ner of the morning. The names 
were at first confirmed, Sena- 
tor Laimbier, who had made 
the chief opposition, moving the 
confirmation. This action was, 
however, reconsidered on motion of 
Senator Andrews, on the ground 
of the promises made in the As- 
sembly to the democrats, who 
passed it, that the board would 
comprise two democrats. The 
names were accordingly sent back 
to the Governor. 

The continuation of Boole in 
office by the defeat of the Health 
bill is accompanied by the pas- 
sage of a resolution continuing 
the Senate investigating com- 
mittee, to sit during the sum- 
mer and examine the other depart- 
ments. The feeling here is that 
Boole was treated as an invidious 
exception and the thing will be 
made even all round. 

The action determined on in 
caucus yesterday in regard to 
Draper and the Board of Charities, 
was desked by resolution to-day, 
and is coupled with the defeat of 



Rufus F. Andrews as candidate for 
United States District Attorney at 
New York, as a satisfactory mani- 
festation of Thurlow "Weed's power. 
The passage of the Central Rail- 
road Fare bill was conducted 
through the form of third reading 
with no excitement, and with the 
limit of seven per cent, dividends. 
The increase of half a cent per mile 
for three years is thought only rea- 
sonable. 



IMPORTANT FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



Surrender of Montevideo to Gen. 
Flores.— Brazil in the Possession oT 
the City, Sec. 

The Brazilian mail arrived at 
Lisbon April 2, bringing the fol- 
lowing advices : — 

Monte\ddeo has surrendered to 
General Flores. 

The Brazilians now (March 11) 
occupy the city. 

Rio Janeiro, March 11, 1865. 

Exchange 25f a 26^. 

Coffee — Sales of good firsts at 
65.66. Shipments, 100,000 bags. 
Stock, 100,000 bags. Freights, 
50.62^. 

Bahia, March 11, 1865. 

Exchange 26^. Cotton nominal. 
Pernambuco, March 11, 1865. 

Exchange 26J a 27. 



Ne^s from San Francisco. 

San Francisco, April 12, 1865. 

The exports of treasure for the 
quarter just ended show a falling 
off of about six and a half millions 
as compared with the same period 
last year. 



San Francisco, April 14, 1865. 
The Pacific Mail Steamship 
Sacramento sailed to-day, with a. 



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large number of passengers for 
New York, and $1,153,000 in treas- 
ure, of which nearly $700,000 go to 
New York. 

The steamship Moses Taylor sailed 
for San Juan del Sur with numer- 
ous passengers. 

The market continues variable 
and unsettled, and traders pursue a 
continuous policy. Prices of East- 
ern goods are slowly falling. 

Sailed, ship Flying Eagle, for 
Boston. 



New Orleans Markets. 

New Orleans, April 8, 
Via Cairo, April 14, 1865. 
The New Orleans markets are at 
a stand still. Low middling cotton 
is quoted at 42c. per pound, and 
good superfine flour at $9 per 
barrel. 



THE REBELS. 



Jeff. Davis at Danville.— His Latest 
Appeal to His Deluded FolloMrers.— 
He Thinks the Fall] of Richmond a 
Slessing in Disguise, as It Leaves 
the Rebel Armies Free to Move 
from Point to Point.— He Vainly 
Promises to Hold Virginia at all 
Hazards.— Lee and His Army Sup- 
posed to Be Safe.— Breckinridge 
and the Rest of Davis's Cabinet 
Reach Danville Safely.— The Organ 
of Governor Vance, of North Caro- 
lina, Advises the Submission of the 
Rebels to President Lincoln's 
Terms, &c., &c. 



Jeff. Davis' Last Proclamation. 

VIRGINIA TO BE HELD BY THE 
REBELS AT ALL HAZARDS. 

Danville, Va., April 5, 1865. 
The General-in-Chief found it ne- 
cessary to make such movements of 
his troops as to uncover the capital. 
It would be unwise to conceal the 
moral and material injury to our cause 



resulting from the occupation of our 
capital by the enemy. It is equally 
unwise and unworthy of us to allow 
our own energies to falter and our 
efforts to become relaxed under ad- 
verses, however calamitous they 
may be. For many months the 
largest and finest army of the Con- 
federacy, under command of a 
leader whose presence inspires 
equal confidence in the troops and 
the people, has been greatly tram- 
melled by the necessity of keeping 
constant watch over the approaches 
to the capital, and has thus been 
forced to forego more than one op- 
portunity for promising enterprise. 
It is for us, my countrymen, to 
show by our bearing under reverses 
how wretched has been the seK- 
deception of those who have believed 
us less able to endure misfortune 
with fortitude than to encounter 
dangers with courage. 

We have now entered upon a 
new phase of the struggle. Re- 
lieved from the necessity of guard- 
ing particular points, our army will 
he free to move from point to point to 
strike the enemy in detail far from 
his base. Let us but will it and toe 
are free. 

Animated by that spirit and for- 
titude, which never yet failed me, I 
announce to you, fellow-country- 
men, that it is my purpose to main- 
tain your cause with my whole 
heart and soul, that I will never 
consent to the enemy one foot, the 
spoil of any one of the States of the 
confederacy, inflate at Virginia — 
noble State — whose ancient renown 
has been eclipsed by her still more 
glorious recent history; whose 
bosom has been bared to receive 



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the main shock of this war ; whose 
sons and daughters have exhibited 
heroism so sublime as to render her 
illustrious in all time to come — that 
Virginia, mth the help of the 
people and by the blessing of Pro- 
vidence, shall be held and defended, 
and no peace ever be made with the 
infamous invaders of her territory. 

If by the stress of numbers we 
should ever be compelled to a tem- 
porary withdi'awal from her limits, 
or those of any other border State, 
again and again will we retiu*n, un- 
til the baffled and exhausted enemy 
shall abandon in despair his endless 
and impossible task of making 
slaves of a people resolved to be 
free. 

Let us, then, not despond my 
countrymen; but, relying on God, 
meet the foe with fresh defiance 
and with unconquered and uncon- 
querable hearts. 

Jepfeeson Davis. 



The £vacution of the Rebel Capital. 

THE FIRST REBEL ACCOUNT OF HOW 
THE CITY WAS ABANDONED. 

[From the Danville ( Va) Eegister.April 5.] 

Persons who left the capital Sun- 
day night and Monday morn- 
ing represent that the scene 
which followed the evacution 
of the city by our troops 
beggars description. To preserve 
order and protect the property of the 
citizens who unavoidedly remained 
there, as far as could be done, the 
Nineteenth Virginia militia, under 
Colonel Evans, was placed on 
police duty in the city, to await the 
coming of the enemy; but accounts 
state that they failed to render any 



aid or protection to the people 
whatever. On Sunday night a mob 
of the lower classes of the city, 
composed, it is said, mostly of the 
foreign element, visited a number 
of the largest store-houses of the 
city and robbed them of theii- con- 
tents. It is affirmed that Main 
street was pillaged, and then 
burned, and that some of the mill- 
ing establishments were also com- 
mitted to the flames. We have no 
doubt that a considerable portion of 
that brave city has been laid in 
ashes, and a number of its people 
insulted, outraged, robbed and mas- 
sacred. How painful the thought 
that the place should be given over 
to rapine and plunder, even before 
the public enemy entered its limits. 
But the fact only proves that the 
people of Richmond have had secret 
enemies in their own midst scarcely 
less savage and even more treacher- 
ous and vindictive than the open 
foe. 

We are told that the people 
banded together during the violent 
proceedings of the mob and resisted 
them with force, a street fighting 
ensuing, in which several persons 
were killed. 

No intelligence has reached us of 
the enemy's troops occupying 
the city. The last trains of 
the Danville raih'oad, which 
came out of the place, left 
Monday morning, and passengers 
upon them had heard nothing from 
the enemy. The greater portion of 
Grant's army was transferred to 
the south side of James river some 
days ago, only the command of 
General Ord, which is composed 
mostly, if not entii'el.y, of negro 



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troops, being left on the north side. 
This command will enter and oc- 
cupy the city. Some of our people 
who are acquainted with the charac- 
ter of General Ord think they have 
reason to hope that his treatment 
of the unfortunate people of Rich- 
mond will not be so hard, and cruel 
and inhuman as that which has 
fallen upon the heads of our fellow 
citizens in some other captured 
cities. 

The newspapers of Richmond, we 
suppose, all fell into the hands of 
the enemy. The evacuation of the 
city was so sudden and unexpected 
—scarcely any one being prepared 
for it — that no time was left for the 
removal of so cumbrous an estab- 
lishment as a city newspaper office. 
In a few days Ave may expect to 
hear that the Enquirer, or the TTTiigr, 
or the Examiner is issued as a Yan- 
kee paper. 

All the rolling stocks of the Rich- 
mond and Danville Railroad in 
running order was saved on the 
retreat from Richmond. A few old 
cars, not in a movable condition, 
were left at Manchester. No train 
was captured by the enemy near 
the junction, as was at one time re- 
ported ; and, indeed, we do not 
believe that any body of Yankees 
had struck the road at any point up 
to yesterday evening. 

The Secretary of War, the Quar- 
termaster General, Commissary 
General and a number of other 
officers of the government, left 
Richmond on horseback, and will 
probably arrive at this place to- 
morrow. 

Should General Lee establish his 
lines east of the junction, we sup- 



pose the State Legislature will be 
convened at Lynchburg. 

All the specie and other valuables 
belonging to the banks in Rich- 
mond were removed from the city 
on Sunday, and have been carried 
to places of safety. 

A considerable amount of goods^ 
purchased by the State for distribii- 
tion to the people, we regi-et to 
learn, had to be left behind. Also 
the State archives remained in the 
city ; but we perceive no motive the 
enemy can have in destroying them, 
as they will, no doubt, endeavor to 
occupy the city permanently, and 
establish a State government at 
Richmond under the federal Union. 



Lee's Army Supposed to Be In a Safe 
Position. 

[From the Kaleigh Confederate, April 7.] 
This is the time for rumor manu- 
facturers who are engaged in a 
wholesale business. Sometimes they 
have it that whole brigades deserted 
in the last great battle; among 
others, Cook's brigade is selected as 
the bearer of the stigma. "We are 
assured that such a statement has- 
no foundation whatever; that no 
treachery induced the disaster at 
Petersburg, that our forces fought 
splendidly, and the enemy only siic- 
ceeded by overwhelming numbers. 
We are convinced, too, from facts 
which we cannot mention, that 
Lee's army is in a safe position and 
that his future movements uill be 
directed with the skill and energy tchich 
distinguish this great captain. 

Having anticipated the probable 
loss of Richmond, and fully recog- 
nizing the importance of the disas- 
ter, we are, nevertheless, not of the 
number of those who give up the 



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cause. In the Southern confederacy 
this day there is military strength 
of men, material and supplies to 
make independence certain. It is 
with the people themselves whether 
they secure or lose their liberties. 



Rebel Particulars of the Battle at 
Petersburg!!. 

[From the Kaleigh Confederate, April 7.] 
An ofBcer who left Richmond at 
nine o'clock on Monday morning- 
last, informs us that at the time he 
left the city was in flames from 
Cary to Canal streets. The Shokoe 
warehouse and other entreports of 
supplies were burning. The bridges 
also had been fired. 

No mob or violence of any kind 
had occurred up to the period when 
he left, so that the reports of a de- 
structive mob on Sunday night are 
untrue. The enemy's cavalry en- 
tered the city as the train moved 
off that he came out in. The story 
of the mob, therefore, we hope, is 
entirely erroneous. 

This officer describes the fighting 
on Saturday as terrific beyond de- 
scription. The enemy forced col- 
umn after column on our works, 
lapping our lines on the extreme 
right. They came nine columns 
deep. Eight lines faltered and 
were broken by the obstinacy of 
our defences ; but the ninth broke 
over our forces like a whirlwind. 
He says the destruction of the ene- 
my was immense. Our loss, we 
think, consisted mainly in the pri- 
soners taken by the enemy. All 
the prisoners whom we captured 
were drunk, having been prepared 
according to Yankee tactics for this 
dreadful ordeal. Lieutenant Gen- 



eral A. P. Hill was certainly killed. 
General Fitz Lee was not killed as 
reported, nor General W. H. F. Lee. 
No general officer from North Caro- 
lina was killed, as far as is heard. 
On Monday Sheridan attacked Fitz 
Lee and was handsomely repulsed. 



The Organ of Governor Vance, of 
North Carolina, Advising General 
Lree to Submit to Mr. Lincoln's 
Terms. 

[From the Ealeigh Confederate, April 7.] 
The Conservative occasionally 
seems to fall into very mysterious 
hands, and to come under the con- 
trol of an incomprehensible influ- 
ence. On the day before yester- 
day that paper availed itseK of a 
period of extreme reverse and disas- 
ter to renew the attempt to cast 
odium on a portion of our own citi- 
zens, which has been a favorite 
policy with its political leaders ever 
since the reverses began, and after 
it was no longer politic to claim 
that they " made the revolution." 
Yesterday it sends to the public a 
leader of stiU more extraordinary 
import. From what we compre- 
hend of it, it seems to be a distinct 
proposition to submit and surrender up- 
on the terms p)roposed by Lincoln. 
This has never yet, that we recol- 
lect of, been more distinctively pro- 
posed, even by journals whose 
loyalty has been called in question. 
The Conservative says : — '' It is non- 
sense to propose to treat with the 
North with any expectation of the 
concession that the confederacy is a 
government," and hence, says the 
Coni<ervative, " if our authorities are 
determined to force this condition 
upon the North as a basis of nego- 
tiation, then the North will never 



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negotiate." What is this but sur- 
reuder? Not only surrender, but 
an assertion to the world that the 
defence of the last four years has 
been of a position which is one of 
sheer nonsense — one which the 
North '"never could admit." We have 
not seen in this controversy so bold 
and unconditional a justification of 
the Northern invasion ; for, if we 
sought to force a claim inconsistent 
with reason, and to demand an " ad- 
mission '' which " is an absurdity in 
anything like government," and the 
North only resisted such claim and 
refused such admission, then we 
are in the wrong and the Yankee 
government is right, and the writer 
of the article to which we are reply- 
ing does well when he advices Gen- 
eral Lee nol to " Uock up his way, at the 
threshold, by presenting a l>asis to which 
he knows the enemy ivill not yield " but 
'Ho meet him on his own ground" 
as " the only way to open the nego- 
tiation." When we remember what 
" his own ground " is, upon which 
the CojiseruG^iue proposes to meet the 
enemy, we may readily understand 
how much it is prepared to con- 
cede. " His own ground " measured 
the length of three propositions : 
submission to the laws and consti- 
tution of the United States, the 
laying down of our arms, and ac- 
quiescence in Lincoln's proclama- 
tions. This is the ground on which 
the author of the editorial desires 
General Lee to meet Lincoln and 
" secure a talk about peace." We 
have no idea that Governor Vance 
will support this idea ; but it is very 
unfortunate that now, in the very 
moment when everything should be 
said to uphold the hopes and confi- 



dence of the army and people, such 
sentiments should obtain i:)ubli ca- 
tion in the organ of the Governor. 



Overstocked 



High Prices in an 
Market. 

[From the Ealeigh Confederate, April 7.] 

Our market, on the arrival of the 

Weldon train, on yesterday, became 

overstocked with shad ; they went off 

slowly at $50 per pair. 



Exchange of the Rebel General 
Vance. 

[From the Ashville (N. C.) News-l 

The exchange of prisoners seems 

to go steadily on. We have seen a 

large number of our mountain boys, 

who have reached home after a 

protracted imprisonment. Among 

others we were gratified to meet 

Brigadier General R. B. Vance, who 

reached home some days since. He 

looks rather worsted by his long 

confinement, but, as usual with him, 

is full of life, cheerful and buoyant. 

The general is a great favorite of 

the people of this section, and 

everybody was glad to see him. 



City Intelligence. 

Easter Sunday at St. Ann's 
Church. - The admirers of sacred 
music, made truly effective by a 
well trained choir, have an oppor- 
tunity of indulging their taste by 
repairing to St. Ann's church on 
Easter Sunday evening, the doors 
opening at seven, the concert begin- 
ning at eight. Three of the pieces 
are from Gordigiani, three from 
Rossini and one from each of the 
composers Verdi, Donizetti, Ver- 
rimst, Daehauer and Gounod. We 
need only mention the names of 
Signer Remi and Messrs. Schmitz, 



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Schubert and Dachauer to insure 
confidence in the vocal results. The 
ladies are quite distinguished for 
contralto and soprano execution, 
and no exertion will be spared to 
make the musical feast worthy of 
the day. 

A New Church. — An advertise- 
ment among our religious notices 
announces the opening of the new 
Chm-ch of the Holy Trinity, Madi- 
son avenue, corner of Forty-second 
street, on Sunday. Sermons will 
be preached at the three sessions by 
Rev. Dr. Tyng, of St. George's ; 
Rev. Dr. Dyer, and the Rev. Stephen 
H, Tyng, Jr., the pastor of the 
church. It promises to be an occa- 
sion of great interest to residents 
on Murray Hill. 

Croton Acqueduct Contracts. 
— The following contracts have been 
issued by this department : — Lay- 
ing crosswalks from southeast 
corner of Fifty-ninth street and 
Broadway to the junction of Broad- 
way and Eighth avenue, Matthew 
Murray, $625. Cobble stone pave- 
ment in Hammond street, west of 
Thirteenth avenue, Christy Dowd, 
$1,896.80. Sewer in Forty-third 
street, from Lexington avenue to 
Fourth avenue, John Duffy, Jr. 
$1,913.50. Sewer in Forty-sixth 
street, from Eleventh avenue to 
seventy-five feet west of Tenth 
avenue, John Rourke, $5,223.50. 
Fifty-second street, sewer from 
Sixth to Seventh avenues, Joseph 
Moore, $4,880. Sewer to 125th 
street, from Fifth avenue through 
Manhattan street to Tenth avenue, 
James Cunningham, $22,941.35. 

Miss Emma Hardinge delivers 
her able lecture on " Politics in the 



Pulpit" this evening, at Dodworth 
Hall. To test the lady's ability, 
any questions the audience desire to 
ask will be answered. 

Man DRO^^'NED. — On the morning 
of the 13th instant a journeyman 
housepainter, whose name is be- 
lieved to be Barnard Burns, was 
accidently drowned at Guntherville, 
Long Island. His body has not yet 
been claimed by his friends. Mr. J. 
B. Acker, of No. 9 Macdougal street, 
will give facilities to any one who 
can identify the corpse. 



Assassination of President Lincoln and 
Attempt to Assassinate Secretary 
Seward. 

An unlocked for and terrible 
calamity has befallen the nation. 
President Lincoln last night re- 
ceived a wound at the hands of an 
assassin, the effects of which there 
are no hopes of his surviving, having 
been shot while sitting in a theatre 
witnessing the performance of a 
play. An attempt was also made, 
apparently by the same person who 
shot the President, to take the life 
of Secretary Seward. The assassin, 
after firing on the President, 
rushed in front of the box occupied 
by the latter, and waving a long 
dagger which he held in his right 
hand, exclaimed, using the motto of 
the State of Virginia, '' Sic Semper 
Tyrannis ! " He then jumped on 
the stage, and, amidst the intense 
excitement which ensued, es'-aped 
through the rear of the building. 
The President was shot through 
the head. He was immediately re- 
moved, and on examining the 
wound the brain was found to be 



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oozing therefrom. The best surgi- 
cal skill was instantly summoned ; 
but it was not thought it could be 
of any avail towards saving Mr. 
Lincoln's life. He was still living 
at an early hour this morning ; but 
the last melancholy parting scene 
between himself and his family had 
taken place, and his death was 
momentarily looked for. 

The attempt to assassinate Secre- 
tary Seward was made at an earlier 
hour in the evening than the attack 
on the President. The assailant 
forced his way into the sick cham- 
ber where Mr. Seward was confined 
to his bed, and, after dealing dis- 
abling blows on the attendants, 
rushed to the bedside and stabbed 
the Secretary in the neck and breast. 
He then fled from the house, 
mounted a horse and escaped, mak- 
ing use, as he did so, of the same 
exclamation used in the case of 
the President's assassination — '' Sic 
Semper Tijrannis/" Though the 
wounds inflicted on Mr. Seward are 
not of a mortal character, it is 
feared that, owing to his previous 
debilitated condition, they may 
lead to fatal results. 

The assassin had not been ar- 
rested up to the hour of our latest 
despatches. Who he is is not 
positively known, though suspicion 
points strongly to a certain indivi 
dual. 



THE SITUATION. 

General Sherman's army com- 
menced its advance from Goldsboro, 
N. C, on the 9th inst. It moves 
m three columns, commanded re- 
spectively by Generals Howard, 
Slocum and Schofield. General 



Schofield moved on the 9th, and the 
remainder on the following day. 
During the rejoicings over the cap- 
ture of Richmond, previous to tak- 
ing up the line of march, General 
Sherman was called out by his 
troops, and made a short speech, 
telling them to prepare to press for- 
ward, as no rest was to be given to 
Johnston. General Johnston's 
army had evacuated Raleigh, mov- 
ing to the west of it, leaving the 
town in possession of four or five 
thousand of Hampton's cavalry. It 
was reported that Johnston had 
gone to Greensboro, at the junction 
of the Danville and Charlotte Rail- 
roads. On the evening of the 10th 
inst. a small force of General How- 
ards mounted infantry were at- 
tacked by some rebel cavahy, who, 
however, were soon dispersed, with 
a loss of one hundred men and two 
pieces of artillery. 

It was reported in Goldsboro, N. 
C, on the 7th inst. that Governor 
Vance would soon caU the North 
Carolina Legislature together to 
repeal the secession ordinance and 
restore the State to the Union. 

Jeff. Davis, the errant President 
of the late rebel confederacy, has at 
last been decisively heard from. On 
the 5th inst., he issued from Dan- 
ville, Va., a proclamation, which 
we publish this morning. He says 
that, General Lee, having " found 
it necessary to make such move- 
ments of his troops as to un- 
cover " Richmond, " it would be un- 
wise to conceal the moral and ma- 
terial injury" resulting to the rebel 
cause from its occupation by the 
national troops. Still he endeavors 
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tliat even this event is a " blessing 
in disguise/' as it would liberate 
Lee's army for more important 
operations. He announces his pur- 
pose to still maintain his bad cause 
with his "whole heart and soul/' 
and to " never submit to the aban- 
donment of one State of the con- 
federacy. "Virginia/' he declares, 
" shall be held and defended, and 
no peace ever be made with the in- 
famous invaders of her territory." 
Probably ere this, on learning of 
the surrender of General Lee, Jeff, 
has become willing to slightly 
modify this proclamation. 

The capture of Selma, Alabama, 
by General Wilson's cavalry is con- 
firmed from rebel sources. Mobile 
papers of the 4th inst. announced 
that it had been taken, with twenty- 
three pieces of artillery and a large 
amount of government property. 

A New Orleans dispatch states 
that a furious fire was opened on 
the rebel works defending Mobile 
on the night of the 4th inst., and 
that during its continuance a maga- 
zine was exploded in Spanish Fort ; 
but the amount of damage done 
had not been ascertained. Affairs 
were quiet in the vicinity of Mobile 
on the 5th inst. Spanish Fort was 
still besieged by the troops of the 
Thirteenth and Sixteenth corps, 
under Generals Gordon Granger 
and A. J. Smith, while Fort Blake- 
ley, another strong rebel work, six 
miles nearer the city, was invested 
by the Seventh corps, General 
Steele commanding. Two more 
Union gunboats, the tin-clads No. 
48 and Rodolph, had been sunk by 
rebel torpedoes. On the former one 
man was killed and on the latter 



four were killed and fifteen wound- 
ed. Rebel communication between 
Spanish Fort and Mobile, as stated 
in Thursday's Herald, was entirely 
cut off by the national army. Gen- 
eral Thomas, with the Fourth corps 
and thirty-five thousand cavalry, 
was expected soon to appear in 
front of Mobile on the north side. 
A somewhat confused rebel de- 
spatch of the 5th inst. from Au- 
gusta, Georgia, indicates that Ala- 
bama is being completely overrun 
by the national cavalry under Gen- 
eral Wilson and other commanders, 
all moving in the direction of 
Mobile. On the 1st inst. they were 
represented to be in force near Mon- 
tevello and Tuscaloosa. General 
McCock's force is reported to have 
burned Red Mountain Iron Works 
and the village of Elyton, and to 
have tapped the telegraph in several 
places and sent despatches to rebel 
officers. Two columns of Yankees 
were also represented to be advanc- 
ing on Columbus, Mississippi, in the 
latter part of last month, one from 
Memphis and the other from Hunts- 
ville, Alabama. From the same de- 
spatch we learn that the rebel 
steamer Gertrude, with a cargo 
valued at two million dollars, was 
sunk in Spanish river, near Mobile, 
on the 3Ist ult., by colliding with 
the steamer Natchez, and proved a 
total loss. 

President Lincoln yesterday or- 
dered the revocation of the passes 
for the rebels Governor Letcher 
and Senator Hunter, to visit Rich- 
mond to take part in the proceed- 
ings for restoring Virginia to its 
proper position in the Union. It is 
said that the military- officei-s in 



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Richmoud granted these passes ou 
insufficient authority. 

Nearly four hundred and fifty 
captured rebel officers, including 
several generals, arrived in Wash- 
ington yesterday. Among them 
was General Ewell. 

Additional details of the cere- 
monies attending the surrender of 
General Lee's army are contained in 
the despatches of our correspond- 
ents published this morning. 

The Danville (Va,.) Register of the 
5th inst., says that General Breckin- 
ridge, rebel Secretary of War ; the 
rebel Quartermaster and Commis- 
sary Generals and a number of 
other officers, left Richmond on 
horseback just previous to its occu- 
pation by the national troops, and 
were expected to arrive in Danville 
on the 6th inst. 

Four Union gunboats recently 
went up the Chowan river, in North 
Carolina, for the purpose of co- 
operating with some cavalry. At 
Winston a force of rebels was found; 
but they were soon dispersed by 
the shells from the gunboats, which 
ferried the cavalry across the 
stream and then proceeded to Mur- 
freesboro, on the Meherrin river, 
which was also captured. 

The ram which the rebels had 
been building at Halifax, N. C, and 
with which they expected to inflict 
great damage on the national ves- 
sels, was discovered in the river, 
above Plymouth, N. C, on the 8th 
inst., moving down; but she proved 
to be a mere shell, having been 
burned to the water's edge. The 
rebel ram Albemarle, sunk at Ply- 
mouth by Lieutenant Gushing and 



his party, has been raised, and is 
found to be not seriously injured. 

Orders to discontinue drafting 
and recruiting in the Southern 
division of this State, comprising 
the first ten Congressional districts, 
were yesterda}^ received from 
Washington and transmitted to 
each of the district provost mar- 
shals. Business therefore came to a 
sudden termination at the Super- 
visors' rooms in the City Hall Park 
and at the several provost 
marshals' offices. Chairman Blunt, 
of the Volunteering Committee, had 
two hundred guns fired in honor of 
the event. 

A Cairo despatch says that the 
rebel Colonel Forrest has arrived at 
Memphis under a flag of truce for 
the purpose of conferring with Gen- 
eral Washburne on the subject of a 
proposed extermination of the 
guerillas. 



EUROPEAN NCWS. 

The steamship Europa, from 
Queenstown, April 2, arrived at 
Halifax yesterday morning, on her 
voyage to Boston. Her news is two 
days later. 

The United States Minister at 
Lisbon had demanded satisfaction 
from the Portuguese government 
for the insult and injury done to 
our flag by firing on the Niagara 
and Sacramento. He requested 
that the commander of Fort Belem 
be dismissed and the Union flag 
saluted with twenty-one guns. No 
decision had been come to. The 
American commanders deny that 
they were about to sail before the 
appointed time, and say they were 
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when fii'ed on. Our special corre- 
spondence from Corunna gives an 
interesting narrative of the events 
which" occurred to the date of the 
sailing of the Niagara and Sacra- 
mento from their anchorage off that 
place. The fact of eight guns having 
just been shipped from England 
to the Spanish coast increased the 
belief that there was another rebel 
privateer operating in the neighbor- 
hood. The remains of an American 
ship, burned to the water's edge, 
came ashore at Malpica, near 
Corunna. 

The London Times correspon- 
dent in Richmond attempts to com- 
fort the anglo-rebel sympathizers 
with the assurance that even if 
Lee and Johnston were defeated 
the " closing scene " of the war will 
trouble the United States during 
two or three generations. 

The London Times condemns and 
ridicules the amended Tariff law of 
the United States. 

A London journal pays a just 
tribute to the action of the United 
States Xavy, under Farragut and 
Porter, during the war. 

Consols closed in London, April 
1, at 89| a 90 for money. United 
States five-twenties were in brisk 
demand for the Continent. The 
value of the bonds experienced a 
slight relapse from the advance at 
the end of the week; but they 
again advanced to 57f to 58J. The 
Bank of England reduced its rate of 
discount to four per cent. 

Two failures in England — a com- 
mercial house and a bank— foot up 
liabilities of over one million 
sterlinsf. 



The Liverpool cotton market was 
weaker, but quiet, with prices un- 
changed, on April 1. Breadstuffs 
were quiet and steady. Provisions 
were quiet and steady. 

THE LEGISLATURE. 

In the Senate yesterday Mr. 
Hunger, of the select committee 
appointed to investigate charges 
made against certain departments 
of our city government, reported 
that the committee was not yet 
able to make a written report, and 
asked that they be allowed to con- 
tinue the investigation during the 
recess, and that their powers be ex- 
tended so as to include all the de- 
partments in the city. This report 
was laid on the table. A message 
was received from the Governor 
vetoing the Dry Dock, East Broad- 
way and Xorth River Railroad bill, 
which was ordered to be printed. 
The Annual Supply bill was re- 
ported and made the special order 
for the evening session. The bill to 
increase the fare on the Xew York 
Central Railroad was then taken up 
and amended so as to jDrevent dis- 
crimination in favor of through 
freight and against way freight. 
It was then read and passed by a 
vote of yeas 18, nays 14. Bills were 
also adopted relative to the Croton 
Acqueduct in New York, and to in- 
corporate the Harry Howard Asso- 
ciation of Exempt Firemen. The 
Governor's nominees for Metropoli- 
tan Fire Commissioners were re- 
jected in executive session by a 
vote of yeas 15, nays 17. 

In the Assembly bills were re- 
ported for the erection of a new 
Capitol ; to provide grounds for a 
final resting place of the remains of 



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New York Volunteeers who fell 
at Gettysburg and Antietam, and to 
change the name of the Mariners' 
Saving Institute. Mr. Weed moved 
to take from the table the Metro- 
politan Health bill, which was car- 
ried by a vote of yeas 53, nays 51. 
The question of the reconsideration 
of the vote by which the bill was 
lost was reached in evening session. 
"When the result was announced, 
the bill was declared lost by a vote 
of ayes 52, nays 59. 



MISCELLANEOUS N£^VS. 

South American ad\dces, dated to 
the 11th of March, received, via 
England, by the steamship Europa, 
report the surrender of the city of 
Montevideo to General Flores. The 
Brazilians were in possession of the 
place. This confirms the statements 
given in the Herald of the 8th 
and 12th inst. 

The Cuuard steamship Asia 
reached Halifax from Boston at half 
past eleven P. M. on Thursday, and 
sailed for Liverpool at three o'clock 
A. M. yesterday. . 

The steamship Corsica from 
Havana on the 8th, and Nassau on 
the 10th inst., arrived here yester- 
day. Her Havana advices are no 
later than those noticed in yester- 
day's Herald. The Anglo-rebel 
blockade running steamship 
Banshee arrived at Nassau on the 
30th ult., from Galveston, with one 
thousand bales of cotton. She re- 
ports tAvelve Union vessels off Gal- 
veston bar, and that the town is 
garrisoned by twelve hundred 
rebels. The French bark Eugene 
was wrecked on Great Inagua on 
the 25th of Februarv, and three of 



her crew were drowned. When the 
Corsica was about four hours from 
this port some alcohol was ex- 
ploded in the hold of the ship from 
the blaze of a candle, by which two 
persons were killed and three others 
seriously injured. 

A New Orleans journal of the 8th 
inst. claimed to have intelligence 
that the commander of the princi- 
pal army of Juarez in Central 
Mexico had abandoned the contest, 
and that his troops had returned to 
their homes. 

President Lincoln has recently 
recognized Jose A. Codoy as consul 
of the Mexican republic at San 
Francisco, which fact would seem 
to be a contradiction of all the re- 
ports that our government designed 
acknowledging Maximilian's empii^e. 

Yesterday, being Good Friday, 
the anniversary of the crucifixion 
of the Saviour, there were appro- 
priate religious services in a large 
number of our city churches and a 
considerable suspension of business. 

The law courts adjourned yester- 
day in honor of Good Friday. 
Orders returnable yesterday will be 
attended to to-day in chambers. 

Yesterday Colonel Baker's de- 
tectives arrested J. W. Smalley, 
who had just returned from Charles- 
ton. He w^as the agent of Walden 
& Willard, recently arrested and 
sent to Wasliiugton on charge of 
defrauding sailors out of their 
prize money. Among the boimty 
brokers now in Fort Lafayette are 
William McAnauly, Michael Dillon, 
P. Goodman, D. P. Sullivan and J. 
P. Pike. Among those released are 
P. J. Kiernan, Jas. Thomson, 
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A. Hiller, John Kelly, A. Higgius, 
S. J. Boyle, John Nugent and John 
CaUau. 

There were fourteen wills ad- i' 
mitted to probate last week by 
Surrogate Tucker. Among them 
was that of William B. Crosty, in 
which five hundred dollars are 
given to the Sunday School of the 
Dutch Reformed Church in Market 
street. 

The steamship Etna, Captain 
McGuigan, of the Inman line, will 
sail at noon to-day for Queenstown 
and Liverpool. The Teutonia, for 
Southampton and Hamburg, also 
sails to-day. The mails will close at 
half past ten A. M. at the post 
office. 

Captain Powell, of the steamer 
Commander, arrived at this port 
yesterday from Morehead City, 
states that when off Cape Hatteras, 
on the 11th inst., he passed ten or 
twelve dead bodies floating on the 
water, which were supposed to be 
some of those lost when the steamer 
General Lyon was destroyed by 
fire. In yesterday's Herald was 
noticed the fact of floating bodies 
having been seen in the same vi- 
cinity, on the same day, by the 
captain of the steamship Suwanee. 
John Lehon, a wine merchant, 
and Christian Schutz, a jeweler, 
were yesterday committed to the 
Tombs for trial, on the charge of 
having attempted to burn the 
premises, No. 117 William street, 
on the night of the 9th inst. Schutz, 
after his arrest, made a confession, 
acknowledging his complicity in the 
affair. 

There was no session of either of 
the stock boards or the Gold Ex- 



change yesterday. Stocks were, 
however, firm on the street, and 
gold closed steady at 14Go 

Commercial matters were un- 
usually quiet yesterday, and the 
day was more generally observed as 
a religious holiday than we ever 
knew Good Friday to be before. 
Business was very quiet, and there 
was a general disinclination to do 
anything until the country shall 
have been restored to something like 
order. On 'Change flour was dull, 
but prices were without material 
change. Wheat was firmer for 
spring, but dull and heavy for 
winter. Corn was firm and in 
limited supply. Oats were also 
scarce, and le. higher. Pork was in 
improved demand and firmer. Beef 
ruled steady. Lard was quiet but 
firm, while whiskey was decidedly 
lower and less active. Freights 
were dull and sales were nominal. 



A Proclamation from JefiF. Davis.— 
His "Voice Is Still for 'War/* 

Jeff. Davis has turned up again. 
He has issued a proclamation from 
Danville, and his " voice is still for 
war." The reader will find that 
proclamation in another part of 
this paper. It is savage, sangui- 
nary and defiant, from the first to 
the last ; but it was issued upon 
the false presumption that, though 
he had lost Richmond, General Lee 
had escaped with his army. This 
absurdly belligerent edict is dated 
Danville, April 5, several days be- 
fore the surrender of Lee, and 
doubtless before any information 
had reached Danville of the accum- 
ulating and fatal disasters of his 
awful retreat. 



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Under this delusive idea, how- 
ever, that he still had Lees army to 
support ■ him, Davis defiantly falls 
back upon the strategy of Ben 
Wood. " The finest army of the 
co"nfederacy, under its ablest mili- 
tary leader, had been greatly tram- 
melled," he says, " by the necessity 
of keeping constant watch over the 
approaches to the capital," and 
thus it had been '' forced to forego 
more than one opportunity for 
promising enterprises." In other 
words General Grant had driven this 
" finest army of the confederacy " 
into Richmond and then turned 
the key on it till ready to draw 
General Lee out, and then run him 
down. But, although Davis " can 
not conceal the moral and material 
injury " to his cause from the loss 
of his capital, he agrees with Ben 
"Wood that his armies, " now re- 
lieved of the duty of guarding par- 
ticular points, are free to move 
from point to point, and to strike 
the enemy in detail, far from his 
base," just as they struck Sherman, 
for instance, in his marches through 
Georgia, South and North Carolina. 

Davis, at all events, declared that 
" Virginia shall be held and defend- 
ed ; " that he will " never abandon 
to the enemy one foot of the soil of 
any State of the confederacy ; " but 
that if compelled to withdraw tem- 
porarily, he " will return, again and 
again, till the baffled and exhausted 
enemy shall abandon in despair his 
endless and impossible task of mak 
ing slaves of a people resolved to 
be free." This was on the 5th of 
April, at Danville, and we dare say 
that by this time Davis, a little 
more enlightened, has abandoned 



Virginia and North and South 
Carolina, and is perhaps meditating 
at Augusta, Ga., upon the safest 
route, via Texas, to Mexico. 

It is possible, however, that the 
mad ambition and the terrible dis- 
appointments and misfortunes that 
have fallen upon this unhappy man 
have rendered him utterly reckless 
in his despair. If so, he will j)rob- 
ably persist in his madness till 
stopped in a violent and ignominious 
death. But we cannot imagine that 
he has become so completely de- 
ranged. We rather incline to think 
that there is " a method in his mad- 
ness " — something of strategy^ to 
cover up his real designs, and to 
get safely off without exciting dan- 
gerous suspicions among his fol- 
lowers till well out of the way of 
danger. 

In this view of his declared pur- 
poses of war to the death, we shall 
not be surprised if we do not hear 
directly from him again this side 
of the Mississippi river or the 
island of Cuba. Clearly he is not 
in the mood to accept a pardon ; 
nor do we think that he seeks the 
unpleasant alternative threatened 
him of that " sour apj)le tree " — 
As we go marching on. 

Davis, in short, must have had 
some misgivings of Sheridan's 
cavalry, and, as we conjecture, he 
only stopped at Danville to hurl 
back upon 'Hhe Yankees" his last 
shout of wrath and defiance, and is 
off '' for Cowes and a market." 



Spain and Portugal as Neu- 
trals. — The attitude of Spain and 
Portugal in regard to this country, 
as evinced in their recent action 



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towards the United States war ves- 
sels Niagara and Sacramento is de- 
cidedly hostile, and demands the 
immediate notice of our govern- 
ment. It has come to a pretty 
pass when such petty Powers can 
insult us with impunity. As for 
Portugal she has nothing to lose. 
Like a poor yelping dog, she scarce- 
ly merits a good kicking. But the 
case of Spain is quite different. She 
ought to remember that she has 
valuable possessions within easy 
reach of us. If we had sufficient 
cause to-morrow it would not re- 
quire much more than a month to 
take Cuba and Porto Rico, and then 
Spanish pride and bombast would 
be brought rather low. Our gov- 
ernment must look to this matter at 
once, and we trust that our repre- 
sentatives at Madrid and Lisbon 
will demand fuU and ample satis- 
faction. It is no excuse to say that 
these are weak Powers and of little 
importance. They must not be allow- 
ed to escape on any such pretence. 
Let them apologize at once, and 
promise better behavior in future, 
or be brought to an account. 



The Revolutionary Effects of the 
"War upon the Country. 

No one can question that a 
grander development of this na- 
tion is to flow as a direct result 
from the war we have just passed 
through. Wars for national life 
and a great cause always develop, 
invigorate and inspirit a people, 
however small their power may be ; 
and if they are finally crushed by 
such wars they go down a better 
and greater people than they were 
when the war began — a people 



higher in the social scale. But 
when such a war is waged on so 
stupendous a scale as our war has 
been, and by a people with so much 
intellectual and moral force, so 
much capability of growth, it can- 
not be but that the changes and 
progress that it must induce will be 
such as to belittle all the examples 
of the past and to revolutionize 
completely the present. 

We believe that the influence in 
that way that the war is to have 
upon the country will amount to 
scarcely less than a new organiza- 
tion of our national life. Through 
all the future we will be a different 
people from that we have been. 
We have sloughed away in these 
few terrible years the forms of the 
older life, and already we are tak- 
ing new ones with an imperative 
sense of what we are to be. Our 
national character grows larger 
in the contemplation of what we 
have done and by contact with 
great events. In the several years 
past Americans showed that the ru- 
dimentary freemen of the Revolu- 
tionary days, developing all the arts 
of peace, could be greater mechan- 
ics, inventors, traders and sailors 
than any other menj and now we 
have shown that Americans, taunt- 
ed for their success in those arts and 
their love of the " almighty dollar" 
are possessed also of the grander 
manhood that succeeds in war; that 
they make also better soldiers than 
any other men, and that they can 
carry war to the same high pitch of 
development that they have carried 
so many other arts. The conscious- 
ness of this influence, the national 
mind and character, will stamp 



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with a large and noble spirit the 
literature, history and philosophy 
that will grow out of it. 

Our national industry and com- 
merce will also feel this revolution- 
ary effect, and vastly improved and 
enlarged commercial and better finan- 
cial systems will be the result. The 
undaunted spirit of the navy will 
communicate itself to a mercantile 
marine that will make our flag 
familiar on every sea, and the world 
will derive new wealth from the 
fact that the attention of the people 
has for the fii'st time fixed upon 
the great questions incident to the 
national finances. Industry, assum- 
ing a thousand new forms, will give 
us the full benefit of the untold re- 
sources of this great continent, and 
we shall be richer, more j)rosperous 
in all ways, more happy and more 
free than we ever were, or than 
any other peoj^le ever were. 
From the memorable epoch of the 
closing of this war the great revolu- 
tion in our national life begins, 
and we take a fresh and glorious 
start. 



The Ice Monopoly. — We pub- 
lish in another column a communi- 
cation from the icedealers in reply 
to the notice we gave a few days 
since, informing the public that 
they had entered into a combination 
and decided to double their charges. 
We willingly give the answer in 
order that the public may see the 
weakness of their case. While 
almost everything of necessary 
consumption — such as flour, butter 
and provisions of all kinds, coal 
and wood, and cotton and woolen 
fabrics — is following, slowly we ad- 



mit, but surely and permanently, 
the decline of gold, it seems prepos- 
terous — and so the public wiU view 
it — that the ice dealers, in the face of 
such evidence, should now assume 
to double their last year's charges 
and quadruple the prices of four 
years ago. There are two facts in 
relation to the ice business which 
should not be lost sight of. One is 
that nature furnishes the dealers 
their stock in trade gratis, and the 
bountiful crop vouchsafed to them 
last winter leaves them no cause of 
comj^laint in that respect. And the 
other may be referred to as equally 
worthy of consideration. Congress, 
viewing ice as an article of neces- 
sity rather than luxury, relieved it 
from the burdens of the internal 
revenue law, and permitted the 
dealers to escape the direct tax, 
which has been placed upon almost 
every other commodity. But it is 
useless to present argument which 
is likely to stand in the way of 
combinations like that of the 
ice dealers. There can, therefore, 
be no harm in competition from 
Maine and Massachussets. 



The Cry for Proscription. — 
Ben Butler and the radicals are 
calling out loudly for proscrij^tion, 
now that the war is over and the 
people generally, as well as the ad- 
ministration, are disposed to deal 
humanly with those who have erred 
and have been subdued. Mercy to 
a fallen foe is one of the highest 
characteristics of manhood ; bijt it 
is one which Ben Butler and the 
radicals do not seem to regard. 
Their howling for proscription 
against the Southern people brings 



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to our mmd a few events of history 
—that excellent philosophy which 
teaches by example. It reminds us 
of Robespierre, who was the first to 
call for the guillotine m France, 
and who afterwards gave up his 
miserable life under it. It recalls, 
too, the story of Caius Marius, in 
bhe days of the Roman Republic, 
who demanded the proscription of 
the friends of Scylla, and subse- 
quently perished in the marshes an 
outlaw and a fugitive. At that time 
the best men m Rome were pro- 
scribed, from which event dated the 
downfall of the republic. No good 
ever yet came from proscription. 
The spirit is wicked and unnatural. 
History is replete with instances to 
prove that the men who erect the 
guillotine are the first to suffer by 
it. 



Quite Another Dodge. — It was 
a singular instance of poetical jus- 
tice that the same Dodge who wrote 
an insolent letter threatening to ex- 
act the last man from New York 
should be the very Dodge who tele- 
graphed from Washington to stop 
the draft entirely. To us, however, 
this is quite another Dodge. The 
Major Dodge of the other day bul- 
lied us like a despot , the Major 
Dodge of this morning roars as 
gently as a sucking dove. It is as- 
tonishing what lips and downs 
there are in this great country, and 
how much more modest Lieutenant 
General Grant knows of the position 
of affairs than the thundering blun- 
dering Major Dodge. 



advice to Ben Wood ; but as he 
still persists in writing himself 
down an ass, we add a postscript, 
and again say " don't." The Hon. 
Ben is foolish to pretend to get 
angry about the liberty of the 
press. His own existence and that 
of his paper are the best proofs that 
this hberty has not been invaded. 
We are very sorry that Ben feels so 
badly because peace has come ; and 
we wonder at it, because he always 
professed to want peace. Perhaps 
he had better follow Jeff. Davis to 
Mexico, after all. Lotteries are 
fashionable there 



John Browtt and Jeff. Davis. — 
Some of the radical papers are cry- 
ing for the blood of Jeff. Davis 
when he is caught. Remember Mrs. 
Glass's direction, ''first catch your 
hare." Jeff. Da\ds is only a John 
Brown on a large scale ; but to say 
that he deserves Brown's fate is 
not a strong argument in favor of 
hanging him. Brown went into 
Virginia, tried to raise a revolution, 
failed, and was hung; but his 
death did the country no good. 
Davis tried to raise a revolution, 
succeeded for a while, then failed ; 
but if he be hung what good will it 
do the country ? Let him die, like 
Benedict Arnold, in foreign lands, 
or go, like Judas, and hang him- 
self.. 



Advice by Way of Postscript. 
-The other day we gave our last 



MOBILE. 

Fierce Bombardment of Spanish 
Fort.— Reported Loss of Tw^o Tin- 
Clads.— Destruction of Rebel Trans- 
ports.— The Continuance of the 
Siege, &c.. &c., &c. 

New Orleans papers of the 6th 
inst. have been received. The 



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Times contains correspondence from 
our forces in front of Spanish 
Fort, Ala., to the SOth ult., and 
from Lakeport to the 4th inst. 
Siege guns and mortars are 
mounted by our forces near Spanish 
Fort, so as to almost, if not quite, 
cut off all rebel communication by 
land or water. 

A rebel transport and hospital 
boat have been destroyed. 

The Union tin-clad No. 48 was 
sunk by a torpedo and one man 
killed. 

The True Delta has the report of 
the loss of the United States tin- 
clad Rodolph, by the explosion of 
a torpedo, while participating in 
the attack upon Spanish Fort. The 
correspondent states that two 
others (names not given) were 
blown up in a similar manner. Four 
persons were killed upon the 
Rodolph and fifteen wounded. 

THE GRAND ATTACK 

upon the rebel works was to have 
commenced on the 3d inst. 

THE REBEL LOSS. 

Another correspondent, from the 
same locality, under date of the 1st 
instant, writes: — 

The military situation is very en- 
couraging, although it has assumed 
the proportions of a regular siege. 

By private advices, not yet con- 
firmed, the rebel loss inside Spanish 
Fort is five hundred and fifty killed 
and wounded out of four thousand. 
Our total loss (an estimate of two 
corps) is probably the same. Pro- 
portion of kiUed small. 



Brigadier General My the (a new 
man) is in command at the fort. 

The rebel communication with 
Mobile is entirely suspended. 

Steels (Seventh corps) is invest- 
ing Fort Blakeley, six miles above 
Spanish Fort. 

Thomas, with tlie Fourth corps 
and thirty-five thousand cavalry, is 
expected in the rear of Mobile. 
Nothing definite has been received 
from him for several days. 

The Latest Ne'vrs. 

New Orleans, April 8, ^ 
via Cairo, April 14. ) 

A despatch in the New Orleans 
Times from Spanish Fort, dated 
April 5, says: — 

A furious fire was opened on 
the rebel forts last night from our 
entire line. During the bombard- 
ment a small magazine in Spanish 
Fort exploded. The damage is un- 
known. Quiet prevailed on the 5th. 

Deserters report from eighteen to 
twenty thousand troops in and 
about Mobile, including all the 
State reserves, and about two 
thousand in SiDanish Fort. 

The loss outside the Spanish 
Fort up to the 4tli inst. amounted 
to about five hundred killed and 
wounded. The rebel loss exceeds 
ours. 

Adjutant General Thomas arrived 
at New Orleans on the morning of 
the 7th. 

Mobile papers of the 4th inst an- 
nounced the capture of Selma, Ala- 
bama, with twenty-three pieces of 
artillery and a large amount of 
government property. 



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THE ALABAMA RAIDS. 



Rebel Accounts of General Wilson's 
Movements on Selma and Mont- 
gomery.— Heavy Co-operating Col- 
umn Moving Through Mississippi. 
— AfiFairs About Mobile. — The 
"MTounding and Capture of General 
Cianton, &c. 

Augusta, April 5, 1865. 

Western papers of late date re- 
present the enemy as moving 
through the interior of Alabama in 
large force, from points on the 
Tennessee river. Two divisions are 
near Monte vello, commanded by 
McCook. 

The enemy are in force near Tus- 
caloosa. 

Six thousand from Tuscumbia 
divided at Jasper — one column 
went to Tuscaloosa and the other 
towards Montevello. McCook's 
command was at Elyton on Tues- 
day, March 28. He had a large 
wagon train and artillery. He 
burned the village of Elyton and 
Red Mountain Iron Vrorks. The 
enemy had tapped the telegraph 
Avires at unknown points and de- 
spatched to Southern offices. 

General Cianton despatched to 
his wife, March 28, that he was 
wounded seriously, and left by the 
enemy below Pollard, paroled by 
the Yankees, to report at Barancas 
on the 5th of April. 

The Clarion, of the 27th, states 
that two columns of Yankees are 
advancing on Columbus, Missis- 
sippi. One from Hunts^dlle had 
reached points thrrty-live miles 
above Columbus. Another started 
from Memphis, foui* thousand 
strong, well provided with pack 
miiles, and well mounted, and are 
in the vicinity of Pontotoc, Miss. 



The steamers Gertrude and Nat- 
chez collided at the mouth of the 
Spanish river, near Mobile, at mid- 
night, Friday, March 31. The Ger- 
trude sunk in a few minutes. Cargo 
valued at two millions, and con- 
sisted of provisions, which belonged 
to citizens who had purchased to 
supply themselves for the siege of 
Mobile ; total loss. The Natchez is 
uninjured. 

Captain Vernon Lock, of the 
privateer Retribution, is in prison 
at Nassau. 



Broadway Theatre — Last Ap- 
pearance OF Mr. Owens. — Mr. 
Owens will appear as Caleb Plum- 
mer, in the Cricket on the Hearth, 
at a matinee to-day, and in the regu- 
lar performance to-night. This will 
be Mr. Owens' last night, and there 
are, therefore, only two more op- 
portunities to see this exquisite per- 
sonation. Mr. Owens has played 
two hundred nights this season, and 
his engagement has been a remark- 
ably successful one — the two mem- 
orable points in it being his won- 
derful delineation of Solon Shingle 
and the delicious performance of 
the old toymaker. None who have 
hitherto neglected to see Caleb 
Plummer should miss the last 
chance. 

Personal Intelligence. 

Samuel Downing, one of the four 
survivors of the Revolution, has 
arrived at the Astor House, intend- 
ing, in accordance with the invita- 
tion of the committee, to take part 
in the celebration on the 20th. He 
is one hundred and four years old, 
but is quite hale and hearty. His 



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home is at Edinburg, Saratoga 
county, in this State. 



The liieven-Tliirty Loan. 

Philadelphia, April 14, 1865. 
Jay Cooke reports the subscrip- 
tions to the seven-thirty loan to- 
day $3,642,000, includiug a single 
subscription of nearly half a million 
from New York, and large "Western 
subscriptions ; one from Pittsburg 
of $160,000 and one from Chicago 
of $110,000. The number of indivi- 
dual subscriptions for amounts of 
$50 to $100 was twenty-five hun- 
dred. 



FoPt Sumtep Celebration at Bangor. 

Bangor, Me., April 14, 1865. 
The restoration of the old flag to 
Fort Sumter was celebrated here 
to-day by national salute at noon, 
by a display of all the flags on pub- 
lic and private buildings, and by 
the raising of the Stars and Stripes 
one thousand feet above the city by 
means of a monster kite bearing 
the name of U. S. Grant. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Cabinet in Counsel on the Re- 
construction Question,— The Passes 
to the Virginia Rebel Leaders Re- 
voked by the President.— General 
"Weitzel Relieved of Command at 
Richmond.— Arrival of Captured 
Rebel Officers, &c., &c., &c. 



Washington, April 14, 1865. 
effect of the discontinuance 

OF the draft. 

The discontinuance of drafting, 
and other semi-civil military 
operations of recruiting, will re- 
lieve from duty about seventy- 



thousand persons — provost mar- 
shals, enrollment of&cors, detec- 
tives, &c. It is said that in and 
about this city there are nearly six 
thousand of these officials, the ser- 
vices of nearly all of whom can 
now be dispensed with. 

revocation of the passes given 

TO rebel VIRGINIANS. 

The President to-day has ordered 
the revocation of the passes to 
Messrs. Hunter, Letcher and other 
leading rebel officials, to visit Rich- 
mond for a consultation in regard 
to the States of Virginia, and a 
return to its allegiance to the 
general government. He is willing 
and intends that a convention for 
this purpose shall be held, but does 
not propose that these persons shall 
be its controlling spirits. The 
President says that the action of 
the Military Governor, in granting 
these passes, was without sufficient 
authority. 

general PATRICK IN COMMAND OP 
RICHMOND. 

General Weitzel has been relieved 
of his command at Richmond, and 
General Patrick has been for the 
present placed in command at that 
point. It is said that he was re- 
lieved for his action in the matter 
of authorizing the assembling of 
leading Virginia secessionists to 
consider the return of that State to 
her allegiance, but nothing reliable 
can be ascertained about it to-night. 

MEETING OF THE CABINET. 

There was a Cabinet meeting to- 
day, at which General Grant was 
present. The subject of pacification 
and reconstruction was considered, 
but no determination was arrived at 



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General Grant expressed the fullest 
confidence that Johnston would sur- 
render within a few days, if he has 
not already done so, and it was 
thought best to await the progi*ess 
of events. 

THE TRADE REGULATIONS WITH THE 
REBEL STATES. 

Important modifications of the 
trade regulations with rebellious 
States have been prepared during 
the past week, but they have not 
yet been approved, and since the 
arrival of General Grant, and con- 
sultation with him, it is doubtful 
whether they will be promulgated. 
It is believed that the work of paci- 
fication is proceeding so rapidly 
that in a very short time it will be 
possible to remove most of the re- 
strictions and super\asion at pres- 
ent necessarily imposed. 

GENERAL BUTLER ABOUT TO RESIGN 
HIS COMMISSION. 

General Butler has prepared his 
resignation of his commission as 
major general, and will to-morrow 
present it to the Secretary of War. 

ARRIVAL OF CAPTLTIED REBEL 
OFFICERS. 

J. B. Kershaw, and Brigadier 
Generals S. M. Barton, J. P. Simms, 
M. D. Corse, D. M. De Bose and 
Eppa Hunton, of the rebel arm}-, 
and Commodores Thos. T. Hunter 
and J. B. Tucker, of the rebel navy, 
with some four hundred and thirty 
other field and hne officers, cap- 
tured by Sheridan, have just ar- 
rived by the steamer Cossack from 
City Point. At about four o'clock 
this afternoon much excitement was 
apparent on the avenue in the 
vicinity of Fourteenth street, and 



presently a column of rebel officers, 
in gray uniform, came marching up 
past the New York Herald office, 
toward the headquarters of General 
Augur. At the head of the column 
on the street were one of the am- 
bulances, filled with sick and dis- 
abled men of the party. The streets 
were lined with spectators, and all 
sorts of rumors were at once set 
afloat. 

'•' That's General Lee," said one of 
the knowing. 

" Which one ? " was inquired. 

" Oh, that one on the lead, with 
the gray mustache." 

'^ Oh, no ; that's not Lee, I know 
him." 

" Then it's Ewell." said the wise 
one, determined to get something 
right. 

On an-iving at the Provost 
Marshal's office the facts proved to 
be, that Lieutenant General R. S. 
Ewell and others were invited into 
Colonel lugraham's rooms, where 
they remained for an houi- or more, 
being visited by several old friends. 
]Major Generals Hitchcock and In- 
galls called upon General EweU, 
Avho was an old classmate of one 
and an army acquaintance of both. 
There were several ladies also ad- 
mitted to short interviews with the 
general officers. 

A large concourse of people re- 
mained outside to obtain a passing 
glance of Ewell as he left. Just 
before car time the generals made 
their appearance, and the column 
marched down toward the depot. 
The officers named above were or- 
dered to Fort Warren, Boston har- 
bor, accompanied by their secre- 
taries, while the others were com- 



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mitted to the Old Capitol prison 
until to morrow, when theii* cases 
will be disposed of. 

General Ewell and party will be 
due in New York at half past five 
to-morrow morning. Major Camp- 
bell Brown, Acting Adjutant Gen- 
eral to Ewell, was alloAved to ac- 
company him. In j^ersonal ajipear- 
ance and temperament Ewell is not 
unlike Gen. Wm. T. Sherman of 
our army, though his fore- 
head is not quite so broad. He 
is bald on the top of his head, 
wears his hair and beard trimmed 
short, and has a wooden leg. lie is 
very popular with his officers, who 
saluted him with affectionate re- 
spect as he passed the column in an 
omnibus on his way to the train. 

Captain Russell, Assistant Pro- 
vost Marshal; Caj^tain Forehand, 
and a guard of the Ninth veteran 
reserves, accompany Ewell and 
party to Boston. 

THE NEW COLLECTOR OF NEW OR- 
LEANS. 

Hon. "William Pitt Kellogg, of 
Illinois, has been appointed Collec- 
tor of Customs at New Orleans, 
"vace Dennison. Judge Kellogg has 
held during the last four years the 
position of Chief Justice of Nebraska. 

DEPTJTY COLLECTOR OF NEW OR- 
LEANS. 
Judge Daly, late delegate from 
Nebraska, has been appointed 
Deputy Collector at the port of New" 
Orleans. 

APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUSTICE OF 
NEBRASKA. 

Hon. William Kellogg, of Illinois, 
late M. C, has been appointed to 
••he vacant Chief Justiceship of Ne- 
braska. 



ARRIVAL OF GOVERNOR OGLESBY. 

Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, 
and staff, arrived here last night. 
He is on his way to visit General 
Sherman's army, in North Carolina. 

THE 3IEXICAN EMPIRE. 

Some of the foreign journals 
have reported that it is the inten- 
tion of our government to acknowl- 
edge the Mexican empire. A recent 
act of the President does not, how- 
ever, support that assertion ; for 
he has recognized Jose A. Godey as 
consul of the Mexican republic at 
San Francisco. 



Good Friday. 

SOLEMN SERVICES AT THE CATHO- 
LIC, EPISCOPAL AND LUTHERAN 

CHURCHES. 

The anniversary of the cruci- 
fixion of our Lord for the redemp- 
tion of mankind on Calvary's 
bloody mount was observed yester- 
day with more than ordinary sol- 
emnity. What we have not noticed 
in many years on the same occasion 
occurred, and that is, that a great 
many stores were closed, and busi- 
ness on the part of a large portion 
of the community was suspended. 
All the churches pertaining to per- 
suasions that prescribe services for 
the day were thrown open, and con- 
gregations crowded them to theii* 
fullest capacity. In the Catholic, 
Episcopal and Lutheran churches 
the services were of the most 
mournful character appropriate to 
the solemnity of the day. The 
altars and decorations at the Cath- 
olic chapels were di-aped in mourn- 
ing, and everything betokened sor- 
row and grief commemorative of the 
passion and death of our Lord. 

At St. Patrick's cathedral the cus- 



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ternary sacrifice was omitted and 
no consecration of the Holy Euch- 
arist took place. Instead of the 
Mass the services represented the 
passion, and lessons and tracts con- 
taining predictions of His coming, 
and types of His immolation on the 
cross, were read, together with the 
history of the passion as related by 
St. John, to show how the law and 
the prophets were verified by the 
Gospel. After this part of the ser- 
vices, what is called the ''veneration 
of the cross " occurred. This custom 
is as ancient as Christianity itself, 
and does not, as some suppose, 
mean any adoration of an image 
but of that which the image 
represents, to wit — our Saviour, 
who was sacrificed on the cross for 
man's redemption. At the usual 
part of the proceedings a very elo- 
quent sermon, appropriate to the 
occasion was delivered by Arch- 
bishop McCloskey. 

The services at Trinity and other 
Episcopal Churches were very im- 
posing. The officiating clergyman 
were Rev. Drs Yinton and Oglesby, 
and there was a full choir in service. 



EUROPE. 

The EuFopa at Halifax with Tw^o 
Days Later Ne^s.— Our Corunna 
Correspondence.— The Affair of the 
Rebel Ram. -Ample Satisfaction 
Demanded from Portugal for the 
Insult to the American Flag.— An- 
other Privateer Afloat.— The Nia- 
gara and Sacramento Gone to Sea.— 
British Reports and Hopes from 
Richmond.— The Amended Tariff in 
England.— A Papal 'Warning to 
Maximilian.— T^o English Failures 
for One Million Sterling.— Active 
Demand for Five-Tv^enties, &c., 
&c., &o. 

The steamship Europa, from 
Liverpool on the 1st via Queens- 



town on the 2d inst., arrived at 
Halifax at two o'clock yesterday 
morning. She has forty-three pas- 
sengers for Halifax and thirty for 
Boston. 

Her news is two days later. 

The Europa experienced strong 
westerly winds during the whole 
voyage. On the 12th and 13th a 
dense fog prevailed. On the 3d at 
7 P. M., he signalled an Inman 
steamer, bound East, lat. 51, 
long. 14. 

The Europa sailed for Boston at 
half past five A. M. 

In the allocutions delivered at 
the last consistory the Pope ex- 
pressed surprise and sorrow at the 
sad events which have recently 
taken place in Mexico. His holi- 
ness hoped Maximilian would aban- 
don the course upon which he had en- 
tered, and satisfy the just desires of 
the Holy See. The Pope further 
thanked the bishops of the Catholic 
world, especially those of Italy, for 
defending the religion and liberties 
of the Church, despite the decrees 
of the secular authorities. 

The West India mail steamer had 
arrived in England with over two 
and a quarter millions of dollars in 
specie. She also brought several 
captains of blockade runners whose 
occupations were gone. 

The Epoca of Madrid states that 
the Minister of "War tendered his 
resignation and that General Lur- 
sundi refused to replace him. A 
later dispatch says that the Minis- 
ter of War resigned from ill health. 
General Rivera succeeded to the 
office. 

The King of Denmark relieved 
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his functions. Helleen represented 
the alliance between the reactionary 
and extreme democratic parties. It 
is supposed that all the members of 
the late Cabinet will return to their 
posts. A private Calcutta telegram, 
of March 27, reports commercial af- 
fairs in much the same state as on 
the 25th, when a slight improvement 
had taken place. The steamship Cu- 
ba, from New York an-ived at Liver- 
pool at noon on the 1st inst. 



THE REBEL IRON-CLAD. 



American Demand for Satisfaction 
for the Injury from the Portu- 
guese. 

A Lisbon despatch of the 31st of 
March says that the American 
Minister at Lisbon has demanded 
satisfaction of the Portuguese gov- 
ernment for the jfiring upon the 
Niagara and Sacramento by the 
Portuguese forts. He also requests 
the dismissal of the commander of 
Fort Belem and a salute of twenty- 
one guns to the American flag. The 
American commanders deny any in- 
tention of sailing when fired at, as 
they were merely shifting their an- 
chorage. Nothing as yet has been 
decided in recrard to the matter. 



OUR CORUNNA CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Rebel Ram Stoneivall Gone to 
Sea.— The Advantages of the Stone- 
'virall.— Lisbon Her Probable Desti- 
nation.— An English Steamer Sailed 
•with Munitions of War for Lis- 
bon.— The Niagara and Sacramento 
Gone.— Excitement in Corunna.- 
Responsibility for the Doings of the 
Stonewall.— Another Rebel Vessel 
Afloat.— Burning of an American 
Ship, &c. 

Corunna, March 25, 1865. 
The rebel ram Stonewall has 
gone to sea. After all the anxieties 
and precautions of the past six 



weeks — after all the twists and 
turns of diplomacy - after all the 
watching of the two United States 
ships of war in this port — the ram 
has been permitted to go to sea. 
As I wrote you yesterday she came 
out of Ferrol yesterday morning 
with a perfectly smooth sea and not 
a breath of wind. During the en- 
tire day she lay off the coast about 
five miles, as if waiting for the Nia- 
gara and Sacramento. During this 
time she j)erformed some beautiful 
evolutions — among others, turning 
by aid of her double propeller, and 
making the half circle in less than 
one minute. She remained in sight 
till midnight, when she disap- 
peared. 

The Niagara and Sacramento re- 
mained at their moorings in the 
harbor of Corunna during the en- 
i tire day. Twice they had gone out 
to meet the Stonewall in two dif- 
ferent days, when the latter did not 
have everything in her favor. Yes- 
terday, however, I am inclined to 
believe that Commodore Craven, 
whose courage and bravery no man 
who knows him can doubt, was 
convinced that it would be but a 
sacrifice of his ships and men to 
fight the Stonewall. The speed of 
the latter has been ascertained to be 
much greater than was at first sup- 
posed, and good judges say that 
yesterday at times she steamed 
twelve knots an hour. This is 
more than the Niagara can make 
without wind to help her, and yes- 
terday there was not a breath. 
Then, the Niagara requires wind to 
turn with any rapidity, and with 
such weather, in such a sea, her guns 
not being able to make any im- 



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pressiou upon the Stonewall, the 
Commodore, 1 am satisfied, con- 
sulted his better judgment and de- 
termined not to give away the ves- 
sels under his command. Why has 
not the Navy Department (who is 
the Secretary of the Xavy?) sent 
out a Monitor to compete with this 
new monster ? It has certainly had 
plenty of time to do this since the 
news of the arrival of the Stone- 
wall at Ferroi reached the United 
States. 

I do not think, however, that 
the Stonewall has gone far. Last 
evening a telegram was received 
here, stating that a steamer left 
Liverpool on the 21st, with eight 
heavy guns, and a large quantity 
of ammunition for another rebel 
vessel, and two anchors and two 
hundred fathoms of chain cable for 
the Stonewall This ship was bound 
for Lisbon, and thither I am in- 
clined to believe, the Stonewall has 
gone This evening at sundown 
the Niagara and Sacramento got 
under weigh and are bound for Lis- 
bon It IS possible that between 
here and there they may encounter 
the Stonewall, and if tliey do there 
will ucdoubtedJy be a figlit. But I 
am of opinion that the latter has 
made directly for Lisbon 

There is a good deal of excite- 
ment here to day For the past 
four or five days the sole occupa- 
tion of thousands of the people of 
Corunna have been to watch the 
movements of our vessels, and to 
run between here and tue light- 
house m the hope of seeing a fight. 
They are now of course bitterly dis- 
appointed, and the remarks made 
about our ships are not particularly 



complimentary. It is certainly a 
pity to disappoint the curiosity of 
the good people of Corunna, but it 
would have bceu a greater one to 
have lost two fine ships and six or 
seven hundred men. 

Our own government, that of 
France and Spain, are jointly and 
severally responsible for any future 
damage which this rebel nonde- 
script may do— our* own for not 
having sent suitable vessels here to 
cope with her, that of France for 
permitting her to be built and to 
leave one of her ports under the 
rebel flag, and that of Spain for 
having afforded her every facility 
for repairing and permitting her to 
ship men m the port of Ferroi. The 
Spanish government denies the 
latter charge, but it is capable of 
the most positive proof, and it is to 
be hoped that our government will 
bring that of Spain to account for 
it. Mr. Fuertes, our consular agent 
here, is now actively engaged in 
preparing the evidence of this fact, 
and will be prepared soon to lay it 
before the government. 

From the fact of eight guns hav- 
ing been shipped from England, it 
IS altogether probable that another 
rebel vessel is somewhere about the 
coast to receive them. It may be 
that they are to be taken on board 
the Stonewall and transferred to her 
sister ship, which is now said to be 
in one of the West India islands. 
If these vessels reach your coast, it 
is to be hoped the Navy department 
will wake up and send out some 
proper ships to take them. 

Three weeks ago the remains of 
an American ship, burned to the 
waters edge, floated ashore near 



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Malpica, a town about twenty-five 
miles troiii here. ISlie was known 
to be an Amerieau ship by her con- 
struction and her cargo, which was 
timber, and much of which was 
found floating, as well as by an 
American flag, which was picked up 
near where she came ashore. Xo 
one has been found yet who knows 
anything of her, and after some 
little vexation, the authorities have 
given her in charge of the consular 
agent at Coruuua. It is possible 
that she was burned by the Stone 
wall before she came into Ferrol. 



Einglisli Accounts, 

THE IMPENDIXG XAVAL ENGAGEMENT 

OFF THE COAST OF SPAIN. 

(From a correspondent of the London Herald.) 

I herein hand you particulars and 
information concerning the Con- 
federate steam ram Stonewall, and 
the United States frigate Niagara 
and screw corvette Sacramento, 
about to take part in a naval en- 
gagement olf this port. The two 
last named vessels are at present in 
Corunna, distant about eleven miles 
from here. They have both had 
steam up on board for some weeks 
past, watching night and day for 
the appearance of the Stonewall. 
The excitement here and in Corun 
na is immense. The sympathy of 
the Spaniards is entirely with the 
confederates. 

The Stonewall put into Corunna 
on the 21st of February last, from 
Bordeaux, having experienced bad 
weather, and sprung a leak aft, 
about the 3d of February, She 
came to Ferrol for repairs in the 
government arsenal here. Aboi;t 
ten days after her arrival here, the 
Niagara came in, being followed by 



the Sacramento the following day. 
After they had been here for some 
five days, the Admiral commanding 
requested the federals to leave the 
port, which they accordingly did, 
making for Corunna, where they 
remained at anchor with steam up 
until the 14th inst, when they 
weighed anchor and cruised about 
outside the port for about two daj's , 
bad weather coming on they again 
entered Corunna, and are now 
awaiting the departure of the Stone- 
wall from this place, which would 
have taken place this morning but 
for the strong wind that is blowing 
from the southwest. One of the 
officers of the Stonewall has just in 
formed me that they are to steam 
out to morrow morning, if weather 
permits. Captain Page, command 
mg the ram, arrived here fiom 
Paris two days ago, and immedi 
ately requested the permission of 
the Admiral to allow him to leave 
the port at any moment. The Stone 
wall is an iron plated vessel of 
about nine hundred tons, having a 
ram, or prow, forward about twen 
two feet long Her armament con 
sists of one three hundred pounder 
Armstrong gun, worked fiom an 
armor plated turret, right in the 
bows of the ship. She has also an 
other armor ])lated turret aft, in 
which are two seventy pounder 
Armstrong guns These three are 
the only guns she carries She is 
built on the twin screw principle, 
engines about three hundied and 
twenty horse power , nominal speed 
of vessel about ten miles. Her 
crew consists of about sixteen offi 
cers and eighty men, all told The 
greater part of them are men who be 



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ionged to the Alabama and Florida 
Captain Page last night called the 
crew aft, and, after explaining the 
situation of affau's, said that as the 
confederacy had no longer any 
ports m the Northern states, it "wa^r 
useless going to America, so they 
have made up their minds to con 
quer or to be conquered All the 
yards and topmasts have been low- 
ered, and everything on board put 
m fighting trim. The men would 
not turn in last night, but were up 
the whole night, siugmg patriotic 
songs. All on board are sanguine 
of success, from the captain down 
wards. It is intended only to lire 
shells from the large gun. The 
federals rely entirely on success 
by running the ram down or board 
ing her 

The Niagara is commanded by 
Commodore Cravatt. She carries 
twelve two hundred pounder Par- 
rott guns. Her tonnage and horse- 
power you have probably by you. 
She steams about twelve miles, but 
is very long and cannot turn round 
in less than half a mile, whereas 
the ram can turn round in her own 
length. 

The Sacramento carries eleven 
two hundred pounder Parrott guns. 
and has a crew of three hundred 
men-, the Niagara has a crew of 
four hundred and fifty men. It is 
the general opinion of people here 
that if the Stonewall can but lodge 
one of her three hundred pound 
shells in either of the federals it 
will sink them in five minutes. 

There are two Spanish frigates 
waiting to accompany the ram out 
to sea, in order that no fighting 
may take place in Spanish waters. 



The guns in the forts have been 
got ready for action in case the 
federals should attempt to break 
neutrality 

The Admiral of the station sym- 
pathizes with the South, and when 
taking leave of the captain of the 
Stonewall yesterday said he wished 
hini success from his heart. 

The Wind is blowing very strong 
at present ; I almost fear the ram 
cannot leave to-morrow, but will 
wi'ite and advise you later if any- 
thing fresh occurs. 

Mr Buffum, correspondent of the 
New York Herald, has come 
from Pans, to witness and report 
the fight. I wiU write and give you 
particulars of the same. 



British Ne^s from Richmoiid. 

ANGLO-REBEL HOPES OF FUTURE 
TROUBLE DT A]MERICA. 

The correspondent of the London 
Times, writing from Richmond on 
the 4th of March, says: — I am daily 
more convinced that if Richmond 
falls, and Lee and Johnston are 
driven from the field, it is but the 
fii'st stage of this colossal revolu- 
tion which will then be completed. 
There will ensue a time when 
every important town of the South 
will require to be held by a Yankee 
garrison- when exultation in New 
York will be exchanged for sober- 
ness and right reason, and when it 
will be realized that the closing 
scenes of this miglitiest revolution- 
ary drama will not be played out 
save m the times of our children's 
children. 



Tlio Ne-w Aznerican Tariff, 

The London Times has an editori- 
al on the amended tariff law of the 



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United States It says— It is im 
possible to find an excuse for it 
Tried by the light of reason, or by 
the results of experience^ it is alike 
condemned The Loudon Tones 
ironically credits the framers of the 
scheme with peculiar wisdom in 
selecting the 1st of April for its in- 
auguration 



The United States Navy. 

The Loudon Army and Navy 
Gazette says : — The work of the 
United States Xav}' has now been 
accomplished, and it must be con 
fessed that in the hands of Farra- 
gut and Por.er the high reputation 
which the officers and seamen of 
that power established soon after 
the national existence of itself has 
been ^reatlv enhanced. 



The Atlantic Telegraph 

The French government will 
probably send one or tvro steamers 
to accompany the two that are sent 
by the English government with 
the Great Eastern across the At- 
lantic, at the time of laying the 
Atlantic cable, and it is hoped that 
the United States government will 
do the same. 



THE FRANCO-MEXICAN QUESTION. 



Speech of M. Olllvier, in the French 
Legislature, on the attitude of the 
United States. 

[Translated for the New Yoke Herald from the 
Opinion Katloualeof March 29] 

I congratulate the government 
upon the promise made that our 
troops are soon to be withdrawn 
from Mexico, and that no more for- 
eign expeditions are to be under- 
taken. Peaceable progress is pre- 



ferable to warlike ventures. * * * 
With regard to the press the gov- 
ernment has taken no action. It is 
certain that during some time past 
the press has acquired great liberty^ 
being generally able to freely dis- 
cuss all questions. But this same 
freedom has been and is intermit- 
tent and capricious The condition 
of the press may be described as 
liberty tempered with arbitrary 
rule * * * There must no lon- 
ger be restrictions imposed upon an 
instrument which, when monopol- 
ized, wields a power incompatible 
with liberty * * * Jf the great 
French revolution had been checked 
before the desperate days of Sep- 
tember, and if the counsels of 
Bailly and Vergniaud had been 
heeded, we should have had liberty 
instead of a dictatorship, and Bona- 
parte, despite his genius, would 
have remained on a level with 
Washington; and if Bonaparte, 
after having charmed and conquer- 
ed the world, had known enough to 
stop in time, he would likewise 
have founded a lasting work * * * 
Notwithstanding the enthusiasm 
with which the Emperor Maximili- 
an was received, the obstacles in the 
T:ay of his goveimment have not 
been removed. He is forced to rely 
upon foreign forces, and the prob- 
ability of intervention by the 
United States seems to aggravate 
Ins difficulties. We well know the 
doctrine entertained by the United 
States of claiming to prevent the foun- 
dation of new monarchical, or colonial 
governments upon the vast territory of 
North America. The United States 
have not looked with satisfaction 
upon our intervention in 3Iexico, 



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and the accession of the Emperor 
Maximilian. They have refused to 
recognize him and their ill will to- 
wards him is being constantly mani- 
fested. Juarez is stiU in their eyes 
the legitimate head of the government. 
Being a i^rey to civil war the United 
Slates have not hitherto been aile to 
mamfed these sentiments save by pro- 
tests and reservation. <, but when the war 
shall have ended — and it cannot last 
forever — ichat will hoppen then ? It is 
to be feared that the Monroe doc- 
trine will be then triumphantly 
executed, and that the intervention 
of the United States in Mexico 
will destroy our work there. Should 
this intervention occur after the 
departure of our forces we would 
not be bound to aid the Emperor 
Maximilian; but were it to take 
place while our flag remained we 
should be drawn into a war which 
the country does not care about and 
takes no interest in. We could not 
withdraw in the face of such an oc- 
currence, and the situation would 
then assume a seriousness that none 
can deny, and which fully justifies 
our anxieties. 

We should, therefore, urge upon 
the government to make every 
effort to bring our troops back to 
France as soon as possible, and not 
until they are withdrawn will the 
country be entirely free from re- 
sponsibility for the events which 
may occur in Mexico. 

Great Britain. 

Parliamentary proceedings on 
the 30th ult. were unimportant. 

In the House of Commons on 
the 31st Lord C. Paget said 
that the Admiralty had received 
no proposal for sanctioning or 



supporting any fresh attempt to 
reach the North Pole. He was 
therefore unable to say what course 
the government would take if such 
a proposal were introduced. 

Mr. Newdegate put some ques- 
tions as to the idea of the Pope 
taking up his residence m England 
as indicated m some foreign 
journals. 

Lord Palmerston replied that the 
government respected the Pope per- 
sonally very much, but for him to 
come to England would be both an 
anachronism and a solecism. 

The revenue returns for the fin- 
ancial year ending March 31 show a 
net increase of over £101,000 on 
the year. Notwithstanding the 
great reductions in taxation the 
revenue exceeds by nearly half a 
million sterling the estimates of 
Mr. Gladstone. 



France. 

Weekly returns of the Bank of 
France show an increase of cash on 
hand of over two and a half millions 
of francs. 

In the French Chambers, on the 
30th, the first of the opposition who 
debated the amendment, Jules Favi'e 
spoke upon the necessity for politi- 
cal liberty, but was interrupted by 
the President and declined to finish 
his speech. The amendment was 
rejected. 

The amendment in favor of the 
liberty of the press was debated, 
but rejected by a large majority. 

It is stated that Napoleon will 
leave Paris early in May, not re- 
turning until November, his phj^si- 
cians having recommended seven 
months' absence in the country air. 



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The Bourse is firm at 67f . 45c. 



Prussia. 

In the Mihtary Committee of 
Chambers the deputies amendment 
was introduced with the object of 
effecting a reconciliation between 
the government and Chamber, and 
proposing a maximum strength of 
the army of one hundred and eighty 
thousand men, which was rejected 
by eleven to eight. The committee 
also rejected the general military 
estimates and naval estimates and 
amendments, thus refusing the 
whole military and navy proposals 
of the government. 



Austria. 

Count Mensdorff had made some 
ministerial explanation in the 
Lower House Reichsrath. He said 
the views of the government on the 
question of the duchies would be 
communicated in the Federal Diet 
on the 6th of April. 

As regards relations with Italy, 
he said the government desired to 
promote the material interests of 
the two countries ; but that Italy 
maintained a hostile attitude to the 
government. He desired to re- 
cognize, but must maintain the 
position of Austria as a great 
Power. 



Commercial Intelligence. 

THE LONDON MONEY MARKET. 

Messrs. Barings' circular says 
that a large business has been done 
m United States five-twenty bonds, 
and that prices advanced early in 
the week to 57^ a 58, but have since 
relapsed to 56i a 57, the demand 
being chieflv from the Continent. 



On Friday the telegrams per the 
steamship Cuba were received, and 
five-twenties again advanced to 57| 
a 58|. Erie and Illinois Central 1 
shares have also attracted attention, 
and have again advanced. 

The Bank of England, on the 
30th ultimo, reduced the rate of dis- 
count to four per cent, at which 
there is a fair demand for money. 
This movement strengthened the 
English funds, and consols are 
buoyant and advancing. 

Kelson, Tritton & Co., East India 
and general merchants, have sus- 
pended payment. Their liabilities 
are estimated at £900,000 sterling. 

Another provincial bank has sus- 
pended — the Portsmouth and South 
Hants Banking Company. Their 
liabilities are about £170,000 sterl- 
ing. 

The Birmingham and Joint Stock 
Banking Company had agreed to 
take up the business of Atwood & 
Spooner's bank — which lately sus- 
pended at Birmingham — and to pay 
the creditors eleven shillings three- 
pence on the pound. 

London, April 1 — Evening. 

Consols closed at 89| a 90 for 
money. 

American Stocks.— Illinois Cen- 
tral Railroad, 61J a 62J ; Erie Rail- 
road, 35 J a 36^ ; United States five- 
twenties, 57.^ a 58^. 

the PARIS BOURSE. 

Paris, March 31— P. M. 
The Bourse is steady. The rentes 
closed at 67f. 30c. 

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. 

Liverpool, March 31— Evening. 
[The week's market leport was 
received per Moravian.) 



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The stock of cotton in port is 
580,000 bales by actual count, being 
13,000 bales below the estimates, of 
which amount 49,000 bales are 
American. 

TRADE REPORT. 

The Manchester market was 
firmer, with an upward tendency. 

LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. 

The market is easier. Richards- 
son, Spence & Co. and others re- 
port: — Flour dull and easier 
Wheat quiet, and quotations are 
barely maintained: red Western, 
8s. a 8s. 8d. Corn inactive, mixed, 
27s. 6d. 

LIVERPOOL PROVISIONS MARKET. 

The market is downward. Wake- 
field, Nash & Co. and others re- 
port: — Beef has a downward tend- 
ency Pork heavy, and declined 2s. 
6d. Bacon firmer and packers de- 
mand an advance. Lard dull and 
easier at 5Ss. Gd. a 61s. Butter flat 
and declining. Tallow downward 

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. 

Ashes easier at 28s. 6d. for pots, 
and 86s. for pearls. Sugar flat. 
Coffee quiet and steady. Rice quiet 
and steady. Clover seed firmer. 
Jute 10s. a 30s. lower. Cod oil 
quiet at 57s. Sperm oil — No sales. 
Linseed oil steady. Rosin very 
dull. Spirits turpentine quiet at 
65s. a 66s. 

Petroleum. — Boult, English & 
Brandon report : —Petroleum firm 
at Is. lid. a 2s. for refined; no 
crude in market. 

LONDON markets. 

Flour firm, Wheat steady. Iron 
advahcing ; bars and rails, £6 10s. 
a £6 l5s.; Scotch pig, 52s. 3d. Sugar 



inactive. Coffee active at a decline 
of Is. a 2s. Tea steady at lOid. for 
common congon. Rice steady. 
Spirits turpentine firm at 67s. Pe- 
troleum steady at £18 fo^- crude, 2s. 
for refined. Sperm oil nominal at 
£82. Tallow downward at 40s. a. 
43s. Linseed oil flat. 

the latest markets. 
Liverpool, April 1 - Evening. 

Cotton. — Sales to-day 6,000 bales,, 
including 2,000 bales to speculators- 
and importers. The market is less- 
firm, but quiet and unchanged. 

Breadstuffs.— The market is 
quiet and steady. 

Provisions. -The market is quiet 
and steady 

Petroleum firm at 2s. a 2s. id. 
for refined. 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 



Two Men Charged -vtrltli Arson. — 
Confession of One of the Prison- 
ers.— They Are Committed 'Without 
Bail. 

John Schon. a wine merchant, 
hving at 269 William Street, and 
Chi'istian Schutz, a jeweler, residing 
at No. 6 Roosevelt street, were yes- 
terday arrested by Officer Barton,, 
of the Second precinct, on a charge 
of arson preferred against them by 
Mr. John F. Kauffmau, keeping a. 
restaurant at 177 William street. 
From the deposition of Mr. Kauff- 
man, it appears that himself and 
Schon bought the lease of premises 
176 William street of Mr. Louis 
Thourout, for which they were to 
pay $650 for two years from the 1st 
of May next. Mr. Schon then occu- 
pied a portion of the same premises- 
for a wine cellar, and Mr. Kauff- 
mau had rented another part of thr 



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same building. About two weeks 
ago Mr. Kauffman luformed Scliou 
that lie did not wish to go into 
partnership with him. This seemed 
to excite the anger of Mr Schon, 
and on the evening of the 9th iiist. 
the rear part of Schon's premises 
were fired, apparently by design, 
but the flames were extinguished 
before much damage was sustained. 
Mr. Kauffman subsequently re- 
ceived information which induced 
bini to beUeve that the defendants 
fired the place, and accordingly 
entered a complaint against them. 
They were arraigned before Justice 
Dowlmg yesterday afternoon, when 
the prisoner Schutz made the fol- 
lowing confession in relation to the 
fire- — 

On the Monday before the fire I 
was in John Schon's wine cellar at 
No. 176 William Street : I was 
playing cards with him alone t he 
said to me that I was a smart fel- 
low, and could make fifty dollars 
easy : he then said that he wanted 
to put somebody out of the house, 
and that if I would set fire to the 
house he would give me fifty dollars. 
I told him I would not set the fire ; 
he then asked me if I would help 
Mm to do it ; I agreed to help him ; 
on Saturday night before the fire I 
minded Schon's place while he was 
out and bought two gallons of kero- 
sene oil; he brought it to the 
saloon in a demi.]ohii ; he told me 
he had two gallons more m the 
house ; it was agreed that the firing 
should be done about nine o'clock 
on Sunday night, after the young 
man had closed up and gone away ; 
at about three o'clock on Sunday 
afternoon Schou went into the 



yard, and on his return told me 
to go back of the privy and take 
off the balance of the board which 
he had partly torn off, and to put 
the board on one side ; I went out 
and took off the board ; this board 
was on the back part of the candy 
store kitchen ; I went to my room, 
second floor back room, at about 
nine o'clock m the evening ; Schon 
told me not to make any alarm un- 
til a quarter of an hour after I had 
seen the smoke from my bedroom ; 
I could see into the yard ; my two 
room mates, Schmidt and Salter, 
were in bed at the time ; I had my 
window open watching to see the 
smoke ; as soon as I saw the smoke 
I became alarmed and awoke my 
room mates , then I took down my 
trunk : the next day. when I saw 
Schon. he told me that I ought to 
have waited longer before I gave 
the alarm ; before Schon told me 
the kind of business he wished me 
to help to do, he said that if T be- 
trayed him it would cost either 
mine or his life. 

Fire Marshal Baker gave the 
matter a thorough investigation, 
and on the facts presented to the 
magistrate he committed the de- 
fendants to the Tombs for trial 
without bail. 



The Case of G. Manizer. 

New York, April 10, 1865. 
To the Editor of the Herald : 

In your edition of March 9, 1865, 
you published an account of my 
arrest, charged with stealing some 
$1,786 from a man named Reutter, 
of 227 William Street, New York, 
with particulars m reference there- 
to, which were false from beginning 



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to end. The publication has done 
me great harm, and the account 
published undoubtedly originated 
from the fertile brain of a detective. 
On Friday last Christiana Ticht, 
and yesterday Henry Languits were 
convicted of stealing the money, 
and were sentenced to the State 
Prison. The money was recovered 
from them as they were about leav- 
ing the country in the German 
steamer. I will not trespass upon 
your space with further particulars. 
I have lived many years in the 
Fourth ward, and have a family of 
grown-up children, and in justice to 
them as well as myself I ask a con 
tradiction in your columns of the 
most unjust report referred to. 
G. Manizer, 227 William street. 



OUT OF THE DRAFT. 



Secretary Stanton's Order and Its 
Effect. — Day of Rejoicing inttio Me- 
tropolis.— "Wonderful Recovery of 
tlie Sick and Disabled.— Stanton the 
"Wonderful Doctor -w^ith the "W^on- 
derful Recipe.— Order of Provost 
Marshal Dodge, &c., &c., &c. 

There was more joy in the me- 
tropolis yesterday than twenty vic- 
tories could produce, each of them 
as great, glorious and eventful as 
the capture of Richmond or the 
surrender of General Lee with his 
entire army. The Wall street jubi- 
lees were more noisy undoubted!}', 
but yesterday's exultation was far 
more satisfactory, though more 
quiet and less demonstrative. It is 
scarcely necessary to state that the 
cause of the general jubilee was the 
sudden, though by no means unex- 
pected, suspension of drafting and 
recruiting The gi'eat bugbear of 



the wheel of conscription was 
wheeled into " that undiscovered 
country from whose bourn " it is to 
be hoped it will never again return. 
The poor man sang ^^ Laus Deo" 
and the rich man sang praise be to 
Stanton, with a feeling almost ap- 
proaching to religious gratitude. 
The vision of increased taxation 
was swept away by a magic dash of 
the warlike Secretary's pen, and 
men of peace, with constitutional 
horror of the sword and musket, 
breathed free once more, relieved 
from the dreadful anticipation of 
involuntary servitude in the ranks 
of the army. The provost marshals, 
who, twenty-four hours before, were 
looked upon as beings entitled to a 
large degree of respect, and even 
awe, sunk m public esteem with a 
surprising celerity, and many 
people who had been studying how 
"to get around them ' for weeks 
past suddenly discovered that they 
didn't care a continental toothpick 
about Colonel Fry, Major Dodge or 
any of their assistants. Security is 
a wonderful supporter of courage, 
and it was in no way surprising, 
therefore, that everybody liable to 
the draft should all at once con- 
sider himself justified in being as 
valorous and defiant as he thought 
proper Here is Major Dodges 
circular announcing the discontin- 
uance of the di-af t : — 

CIRCULAR NO. 47. 

New York, April 14, 1865. 

In compliance with instructions 
received from the bureau of the 
Provost Marshall General of the 
United States, the business of re- 
cruiting and drafting will be discon- 



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tinued in this district until further 
order. By order of 

Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 
RICHARD I. DODGE. 

A GOOD SANITARY MEASURE. 

Secretary Stanton is the best 
doctor we have had in this region 
since the formation of the republic. 
The entire Academy of Medicine is 
not to be compared to him. The 
faculties of all the Esculapian in- 
stitutions in the country are but a 
bauble beside him. The splendid 
recipe which he sent all over the 
country yesterday, free of cost, 
made more sick men well than a 
million of diplomed practitioners 
could cure in twenty years. People 
who were lame last week no longer 
limped, hopeless consumptives ceas- 
ed to cough, half-blind individuals 
recovered their sight, and number- 
less cases of heart disease were re- 
lieved from all dangerous symp- 
toms, as if by the stroke of a fairy 
wand, or by a miracle of Heaven. 
And all this was effected by the 
simple reading of the recipe, with- 
out any rascally compounding of 
apothecaries or leeches. Truly, 
Stanton is not only great in war, 
but great also in peace, and great 
in the mysteries of the materia 
medica. 

WEEPING AND WAILING. 

But there are always some who 
weep while the rest of the world is 
glad. This was strikingly illus- 
trated yesterday. The miser- 
able few whose business it 
has been to fatten on the mis- 
fortunes of their fellow beings 
found their occupation gone. No 
more recruits, no more substitutes. 



no more jumpers, no more green- 
backs ! Alas, poor broker ! Thy 
day has come at last. Weep, with 
none to comfort, and weep on; weep 
on, until Doomsday. The unfor- 
tunate brokers were ruined. Their 
offices were untenanted, their tents 
deserted, and their prospects blasted 
beyond hope of retrieve. The gay 
flags no longer floated from their 
rendezvous, and the alluring drums 
and fifes were hushed forever. 
Long were their profits, and long 
will be their weeping and wailing 
and gnashing of teeth. Not with- 
out cause were their sounds of 
lamentation raised. For weeks past 
some of them have been feeding, 
sheltering and watching their em- 
bryo recruits with as much care as 
an English gamekeeper bestows 
upon his pet pheasant preserves. 
One luckless individual brought no 
fewer than sixteen substitutes into 
the city yesterday morning. He 
had collected them from the most 
distant parts of the State. He had 
clothed them and paid their travel- 
ing expenses, sustaining their cou- 
rage with liberal ''drinks" and 
more liberal promises. He had done 
all this not entirely, perhaps, from 
patriotic motives, but with some 
distant reference to future hand- 
money, and at the instant when 
his labors were about to be crowned 
with success Mr. Stanton's procla- 
mation, like Aluaschar's foot, came 
down upon the crockery basket and 
scattered his vision to the wind. 

A PROPHET UNKNOWN TO HIMSELF- 

Looking over the advertisements 
under our "Military and Naval" 
head yesterday, were to be seen a 



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series of notices for volunteers, sub- 
stitutes, &e. What a beautiful 
medicine those literary produc- 
tions must have been to the minds 
of the authors on reading them 
over in connection with Secretary 
Stanton's order. One of these 
"ads" is worthy of reproduction. 
It is as follows : 

Cavalry! Cavalry! Cavalry! 
— Recruits wanted for a regiment 
now doing duty in Washington 
city. Apply early, as this is your 
last chance, to ex-Captain John L. 
Cleary, military headquarters, 
corner of Broome and Mercer 
streets. 

'' This is your last chance," truly. 
The ex-captam never imagined what 
a prophesy he was writing when he 
dashed off those five words — " This 
is your last chance." He ought to 
be taken in hand forthwith by some 
of the spiritualistic gatherings as a 
prophet or the son of a prophet. 

A JOVIAL BROKER. 

One broker, of a jovial character, 
was found among the host of sor- 
rowers. He was like an oasis in 
the desert, but made the grief of 
his brethren more horrible b}^ com- 
parison. He had the philosophy to 
post on his booth the following 
notice : — 



NOTICE 
CLOSED IN CONSEQUENCE 

OF THE DEATH OF 
THE REBEL ARMY, 



That broker may live to see better 
days if he reforms. 

blunt's headquarters, 
of course, presented an unusual 
spectacle. It had a strange appear- 
ance, deserted, as it was, by aU 
save a few officials. The change was 
in remarkable contrast to the scene 
witnessed during the four months 
preceding. The swaggering broker, 
the reluctant volunteer, the sorrow- 
ing relatives of intending recruits, 
even the policemen, were nowhere 
to be seen, while ' outside a crowd 
had gathered, who viewed with 
delight the process of loading and 
discharging the " big gun," which 
Mr. Blunt had ordered to be fired 
one hundred times, " and yet one 
hundred times more," in honor of 
the suspension of recruiting. 
Brokers sat sunning themselves 
outside their closed booths, vexa- 
tion clearly showing itself on their 
unprepossessing countenances, while 
httle boys chaffed them with in- 
quiries as to whether " they didn't 
want a recruit?" and ''How are 
you, hand money ! " The order for 
the cessation of operations as re- 
gards volunteering was a bitter pill 
to all of this class. 

A severe case. 
One man presented himself at 
headquarters yesterday mornirig. 
half mad with disappointment, 
and auxioush' inquired was there 
nowhere he could get his men 
taken ? It appears he had been 
feasting a party of five men for the 
last three days, endeavoring to gel 
them up to the mark, and had speni 
over $200 in this labor of love. He 
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men bnt the evening previous, and 
intended putting them through yes- 
terday morning; but ''' Vhomme 
propose et M. Le President dispose." 
His chagrin was unbounded as he 
saw the prize he had toiled for slip 
through his fingers. Surely he is 
to be commiserated. This was but 
one of the many heartrending cases 
which occurred, and which justly 
roused the indignation of that hon 
orable class. One man, who had 
paid $650 on Wednesday for a sub- 
stitute, visited one of the provost 
marshals yesterday in a towering 
passion, and demanded a return of 
his money, which request was of 
course, met with a polite refusal^ 
much to his annoyance. 

THE COUNTY AND HER QUOTA. 

No one, we presume, is more 
gratified at the termination of the 
laborious duties of the committee 
than its chairman. Orison Blunt, 
who has done so much towards fill- 
ing our quotas and preserving us 
from a forced conscription. All 
honor to Supervisor Blunt and the 
committee. 

The number of men received in 
this city under the last call is about 
eight thousand, or nearly one half 
of the quota assigned, and about 
seven hundred substitutes. These, 
while they count upon our quota, 
ai;e no expense to the county m the 
way of bounty, thus creating a fund 
of saving of nearly two hundred 
thousand dollars, and as much more 
to the government. This sum far 
exceeds all the expenses of the com- 
mittee from the time of the first 
organization in July, 1863. Prob- 
ably in no other way than the one 
adopted by the chairman could one 



half this number of substitutes have 
been procured. 

THE FOURTH DISTRICT. 

There was little excitement or 
httle unusual to notice in the gen- 
eral appearance of things about the 
Provost Marshal's ofiice of the 
Fourth District yesterday The 
order from the War Office, how- 
ever, had the effect of diminishing 
the crowd about the door, and 
changing the countenances of those 
who were in the vicinity from 
gravity to gayety. The changed 
aspect of the office was pleasant to 
observe. The Provost Marshal was 
ready still to receive recruits, how- 
ever, but there were no funds on 
hand to pay oounties, and so none 
were enlisted. The orders have not 
yet reached him to discontinue re- 
cruiting, and so his office is still 
formally open. 

THE SEVENTH DISTRICT 

There was quite a jubilee yester- 
day morning in this district on 
hearing of the order for the sus- 
pension of volunteering Volun- 
teers were plenty, and substitutes 
could be had " for a song." They 
wandered about like the pig in the 
nursery rhyme, requesting some- 
body to take them ; but none could 
be found to accede to their request. 
The Provost Marshal's office was 
deserted ; and had it not been for 
its sign no one would have known 
it was the same place as a few days 
previous, beset as it was by intend- 
ing recruits 

A solitary guard sat sleepily on 
the stairs inside, there being no one 
for him to watch, while a sound of 
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from the room where but a few days 
since the click of the draft wheel 
and the calling of the conscripted 
were the only sounds heard. 

Captain Wagner, in this district, 
has done his duty. Six hundred 
and lift3'-nine men have been 
furnished since the last call, and for 
some time past it has been the head 
of the list as regards volunteering. 

THE EIGHTH DISTRICT. 

The deserted appearance present- 
ed by the Provost Marshal's office 
yesterday formed a strange con- 
trast to the bustle for the last few 
days apparent there. Then the of- 
fice was thronged by a crowd as 
varied in its character as the interests 
represented in it were diversified 
Volunteers wishing to turn then' 
j^atriotism to practical account and 
pocket the liberal bounty offered ; 
substitute brokers, anxious to 
" earn an honest penn}-," by any 
and every means in their power • 
here and there a drafted gentleman 
eager to send an accommodating 
person in his place to win the 
lam-els which fate, m drawing him 
from the wheel, evidently destined 
for himself, and well pleased by dis- 
pensing a little worldly lucre to ob- 
tain the privilege of staying in his 
comfortable home and confining his 
experience of the stern realities of 
war to reading the graphic accounts 
of the contest in the Herald each 
morning before breakfast ; clerks, 
whose pens glided nimbly over 
forms, rolls, certificates, etc., sur 
geons so actively engaged rejecting 
and passing recruits, that, if kept 
as "reasonably busy" in private 
practice, would be equal to " stnk 
ing lie,' and, though last not least, 



the courteous Provost Marshal, in 
his quiet and agreeable way, attend- 
ing to and superintending all. How 
changed the scene yesterday when 
our reporter made his accustomed 
daily call. 

Silence there and nothing more. 

The crowds had departed, the 
bounty brokers were absent, organ- 
izing a meeting to protest against 
the interference of the authorities 
with recruiting; the gentlemen 
who furnished substitutes were, 
doubtless, speculating on the future 
value of gold and what they lost 
by being in too great a hurry with 
their representatives, or reading the 
fast bulletin from Oil Dorado ; the 
clerks had disappeared, and even 
the Provost Marshal himself had 
vanished. So that, excepting the 
man m charge, there was nothing to 
be seen except the ghosts of the de- 
parted, 111 the shape of vacant 
desks, empty ink bottles, bundles of 
papers and the doctor's hat. 

At the opening of the office m 
the morning, however, a very excit- 
ing scene occurred. Over forty vol- 
unteers, a few of whom had been 
passed by the surgeon the evening 
before, presented themselves with a 
regular rush, as if actuated by one 
impulse— to receive the greenbacks, 
but, alas ! for human expectations, 
they were speedily disappointed, for 
two good reasons. The Provost 
Marshal, in the first place, had not 
the funds, and, m the next, he had 
received Colonel Dodge's order to 
stop drafting and recruiting On 
the receipt of this order the Provost 
Marshal suspended the extra hands 
employed in consequence of the late 



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draft, thereby reducing: the corps of 
assistance to the usual number. 

The absence of the officials in the 
evening was o-vving to the fact that 
from the suspension of business 
and the day being good Friday 
they were indulged with a holiday 
after two P M. 

THE NINTH DISTRICT. 

From Fortieth street to Harlem 
river there was rejoicing yesterday 
More than three thousand families 
were relieved from the dread of los- 
ing some valued member, with- 
drawn from them to fight 

For the great prize of death in battle. 

Silence fell upon the Provost 
Marshal's office, and listless clerks 
were seen where latel}^ all was 
bustling excitement Drafted men 
m the Nineteenth and Twenty 
second wards who had just received 
their notices laughed at their late 
fears, and Twelfth ward men, who 
had grown callous to the Damocles' 
sword suspended over them, bright- 
ened up when it was removed. 
Provost Marshal Dunning, Com 
missioner Sands and the other offi 
cials of the department have done 
their best to discharge an unpleas- 
ant duty in a pleasant manner, but 
it takes an "unco"' civil man to 
render skinning palatable even to 
eels, and the Ninth district, not un- 
reasonably, is glad to be relieved of 
their attentions. 

THE RECRUITING HEADQUARTERS TO 
BE ABOLISHED. 

As an appropriate sequel to the 
order of Mr. Stanton, it will 
gratify our readers to learn that the 
recruiting headquarters of the 
county m the Park are to be 



leveled with the ground without 
delay. The booths and tents will 
also be swept away, and thus will 
disappear the last unpleasant traces 
of the reality of war from our city. 



The Ice Monopoly. 

To the Editor of the Herald : 

Our attention has been called to 
an ''article" that appeared in your 
paper headed " Ice Swindle." As 
an act of justice we entertain the 
hope that you will give our reply 
the same publicity in your paper as 
the article of swindling has ob- 
tained. The grounds you put forth 
to justify your attack upon our 
trade are twofold, namely: — The 
tremendous cpiantity of ice laid up, 
and the great fall in the price of 
gold That in the face of these 
things we have doubled our prices 
bej-ond that of last year, and that 
therefore, the public should com- 
bine to crush such a swindle by 
keeping from the use of ice, and i 
calling m the Boston and Portland \ 
dealers to our city. 

The tremendous quantity of ice 
laid up is not stored here, but at a 
long distance from the city. It was 
laid up at great expense and has to 
be brought here. There are great 
loss, delay and labor .in collecting 
family bills. Many of them never 
pay. All we ask is that the con- 
sideration you expect in your own 
business and that you seemingly 
allow all others should be given to 
us. At a great increase of expendi- 
tui'e in wages, transportation and 
all materials necessary for our busi- 
ness, togetherwith increase of taxa- 
tion, lents. etc — all these charges 
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nor is there any probability 
of any material reduction. In 
reference to the charge of doubl- 
ing our prices, such is not the fact. 
We charged families last year fifty 
cents per hundred pounds; this 
year seventy-five cents, and families 
taking small pieces one cent per 
pound ; butchers fifty cents per one 
hundred pounds. We would here 
observe that the ice trade last year 
was the only business that did not 
partake of corresponding advance- 
ment in their relative departments. 
This arose from the disjointed state 
of the traders. The results of the 
year showed the necessity of a 
more united action as to prices. 
Hence the charge of combination. 
In no noticeable point has the ex- 
penses connected with our trade 
undergone any alteration. The 
butchers are loud in their com- 
plaints ; but you cannot buy meat 
from them lower since the decline 
in gold simply on the principle 
here presented. Boston and Port- 
land dealers have tried this market 
on several occasions, and could not 
meet expenses. Families have never 
taken ice sooner than they can help 
and we cannot be affected by that 
threat. 

ICE VENDERS. 



The Alldged 'W^holesale Theft of 
Liquors. 

To the Editor of the Herald : 

My attention was called to an ac- 
count in your paper on Monday 
last, of the charge of larceny made 
against me and others for taking 
a quantity of liquors from the store 
of Virgil E. HiUyer, and feeling 
that injustice was done me in that 



publication, I ask you to publish 
this explanation of the transaction. 
About the 20th of March last, Mr. 
Amos Barnes came to me and rep- 
resented that he was a partner of 
the firm of J. L. Woolsey & Co., and 
desired to sell to me, in behalf of 
said firm a large assortment of 
liquors, consisting of New England 
rum, and pure spirits, which he 
said were in the store of said firm 
in Duane street, and exhibited to me 
samples of the liquors. As I was 
about to start for the oil regions, 
and desired to take with me a large 
stock of liquors for sale there, and 
believing the liquors were cheap, 
and that I could make money by the 
purchase, and firmly believing that 
Barnes' representations as to owner- 
ship were true, after some days of 
negotiation I purchased the liquors 
on a credit of sixty, ninety and one 
hundred and twenty days. I took 
from J. L. Woolsey & Co. a bill of 
sale of said liquors and gave my 
notes for the same in three equal 
amounts, and a lien on said liquor 
to secure the payment of the notes. 
At the time I purchased these 
liquors I had no suspicion that 
there was any other claim to them, 
nor that Mr. Barnes was not fully 
authorized to sell them. I required 
Mr. Amos Barnes to deliver the 
liquors to me, and procured storage 
in Brooklyn for the whole amount. 
Mr. Barnes undertook to deliver to 
me the goods, and I suppose for that 
purpose commenced moving them 
from the store in Duane street. I 
had nothing whatever to do with 
the taking of the liquors. I re- 
ceived fourteen barrels from Barnes, 
and expected to receive the whole 



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amount piirehased, and should 
have received it if it had been de- 
livered to me. Mr. Barnes still 
holds my notes for this liquor and 
claims that he had a right to sell it. 
Whether he had or not I do not 
know ; but I do know that my pur- 
chase was m perfect good faith, and 
that I have been guilty of no inten- 
tional wrong 111 the premises. 

Mr, Randolph Barnes, who is 
also under arrest, had nothing 
whatever to do with the transaction, 
but has most unfortunately been 
confounded with Amos Barnes, who 
sold me the liquors, and who took 
out of the store all the liquor that 
was removed. 

NICHOLAS BROOKS. 

New York, April 12, 1865. 



GRANT. 



The Execution of the Details of tSie 
Surrender,— The Army Taking Po- 
sition Along the Southslde Rail- 
road.— Lee in Richmond.- Rocsep 
and Fitzhugh Lee Refuse to Be Sur- 
rendered by General Lee.— Names 
of Some of the Captured Rebel 
Army and Navy Officers. &o., &o., 
&c. 



Mr. S. Cadw^allader's Despatch. 

Appomattox, C. H.,April 10, 1865. 

My despatch of yesterday was 
hurriedly closed by the departure 
of a Herald messenger for City 
Point. My despatch of to-day shall 
be confined to some additional de- 
tails of the great culminating 
events of the rebellion, as they pre- 
sented themselves to me, without 
much regard to importance or 
order. 

CARRYING OUT THE TERMS OF THE 
SURRENDER. 

The appointment of officers to 



carry out the terms of surrender 
were made by both parties during 
the night, and a conference between 
Generals Grant and Lee was held 
on the brow of the hill, one-fourth 
of a mile north of the Court House, 
at ten o'clock A. M. General Grant 
and staff had hardly arrived when 
General Lee, accompanied by an 
orderly, galloped up the hill and 
rode to the side of the Lieutenant 
General. General Grant's staff, 
General Ord and staff. General 
Griffin and staff, General Gib- 
bon and staff, General Sheridan 
and staff, were all on the 
ground, grouped in a semi-circular 
position. The country to the out- 
ward was open, cultivated land. 
The Court House stands on a ridge, 
or continuation of small hills, ex- 
tending east and west. 

THE REBEL ARMY- 

Lee's army lay on a parallel 
ridge, with a ravine and little rivu- 
let between, nearly north of our 
forces. The head of his column was 
mainly composed of trains and ar- 
tillery. The infantry and cavah-y 
brought up the rear. Consequently 
but a small portion of the rebel 
army was visible from the Court 
House. 

A CONVERSATION. 

As Lee rode up the hiUside on a 
gallop. General Grant stej^ped his 
horse forward two or three rods to 
meet him. Lee rode squarely up. 
saluted in military form, and wheel- 
ed his horse side by side to the left 
of General Grant. The two chief- 
tains then entered into a conversa- 
tion that lasted nearly two hours, 
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sides to carry out the terms of the 
surrender had reported for duty. 
The tableau at this time was the 
finest ever witnessed. The two dis- 
tinguished leaders of the mightiest 
hosts of the world sat quietly in 
their saddles discussing the past, 
present and future m free and 
easy offhand conversational style. 

During the conference General 
Lee stated that if General Grant 
had acceded to his proposal for a 
personal interview some weeks ago 
peace would have undoubtedly re- 
sulted therefrom. Much of their 
conversation was, of course, private 
and unheard: But enough was 
gleaned to know that Lee acknowl- 
'edged himself completely beaten, 
the power of the Southern confed- 
eracy utterly destroyed, and any 
fui-ther prolongation of the war a 
useless effusion of blood. The 
opinion was universal among rebel 
officers that Johnson would sur- 
render to Sherman without a battle 
on hearing that the Army of North- 
ern Virginia had done so to General 
Grant 

THE CONVERSATION ENDED. 

Shortly before eleven o'clock the 
interview between the generals was 
ended by Lee saluting and riding 
slowly down the slope, across the 
hollow and into his camp on 
the hill beyond. General Grant 
turned the head of his thorough- 
bred Cincmnatus towards the Court 
House, followed by his staff and a 
large retinue of general officers, 

MEETING OLD FRIENDS 

"Withm half an hour thereafter 
the officers designated by General 
Lee to carry out the stipulations of 



surrender arrived, and were accom- 
panied by a large number of noted 
rebel officers. The large veranda 
and yard in front was soon filled 
with groups of Union and rebel 
officers in earnest conversation. 
Half the '' regulars " on either side 
found some old acquaintance or 
West Point classmate among the 
others, and in many instances the 
greetings were warm and unaffected. 
The men who but a day before were 
seeking each other's destruction 
now chatted quietly together, re- 
called the incidents of the past, and 
gave in their open countenances 
evidences of honest respect. Al- 
most the first questions from rebel 
officers were — '' Well, what are you 
going to do with — what are you go- 
ing to do with us ? ' 

the effect of general grant's 
ter:ms. 
The belief seemed widespread 
among intelligent officers that the 
United States government had 
pledged itself to grant no amnesties 
for the offense of treason, and that 
they must " all hang together or 
hang separately." On learning that 
General Grant had taken no ad- 
vantage of their necessities and des- 
perate situation, but had voluntarily 
extended to them the same magna- 
nimous terms offered two days be- 
fore and refused by General Lee, 
they expressed themselves exceed- 
ingly gratified. Discussion of the 
matter among themselves seemed 
to greatly strengthen this feeling. 
AU admitted that their army had 
no further power of resistance, and 
that it was compelled to surrender 
on our own terms. They appeared 
surprised to find no exhibition of 



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vindictiveness on our part. Judg- 
ing from their hearty confessions of 
generous and liberal treatment by 
us one would conclude they ex- 
pected to have been chained to- 
gether as felons to grace the trium- 
phal march of our victorious gen- 
eral. 

At fii'st some may be inclined to 
think General Grant not sufficiently 
exacting. But no one who wit- 
nessed the behavior of the rebel of- 
ficers and listened to their conver- 
sation on the subject could long 
doubt the wisdom of his policy. 

lee's AR3IY delighted. 

Lee's whole army goes home de- 
lighted that they are out of the ser- 
vice, and grateful to General Grant 
for sparing them all unnecessary 
humiliation. The moral effect of 
this on the mass of the Southern 
people cannot be overestimated. 

ISSUING RATIONS. 

On Sunday evening Colonel Mor- 
gan, Chief Commissary of Subsis- 
tence for the armies operating 
against Richmond, issued twenty- 
thousand rations of bread and meat 
to the rebel army, and on Monday 
was able to add the rations of sugar, 
coffee and salt. 



Mr. J. 'Walton Fitch's Despatch. 

Heaquarters, Ninth Corps, ] 

Army of the Potomac, >- 

Burkesville Junct'n, Ap'l 11,'65. ) 

There is no change in the situa- 
tion of this corps since the date of 
my last despatch. The line of the 
Southside Railroad from here to 
Petersburg is still under the guar- 
dianship of our troops, and the im- 
mense wasi'ou trains of the arinv 



are safely conveyed through their 
midst to the victorious force be- 
yond. Our advance guard consists 
of Curtin's brigade, located at 
Farmville — a village about eighteen 
miles from these headquarters, and 
containing nearly two thousand in- 
habitants, nearly all of whom still 
occupy their homes. 

what next ? 
Speculations are rife, not alone in 
the camps, but among officers of 
every grade, as to what disposition 
will be made of this army, now that 
the finishing stroke has been ad- 
ministered to the enemy that con- 
fronted it. Already the probability 
of a Mexican campaign is being dis- 
cussed, and at least three-fourths of 
the officers that express an opinion 
regarding the imminence of a rupt- 
ure with the would-be empire, are 
anxious to join the crusade against 
the Power endeavoring to establish 
itself m our midst, and restore the 
wearer of the crown to his " native 
death " and retirement. 

AN ARMY op OCCUPATION. 

I hear it stated as probable that 
Burkesville Junction — the present 
location of these headquarters — 
may be constituted a military post 
for some months to come, owing to 
its important railroad communica- 
tions and centrality. It is evident 
that some extensive system of pro- 
vost guards or police will require 
to be inaugurated in the event of 
the withdrawal of our forces fi-om 
this vicinity, as the country will 
remain in an extreme state of un- 
rest and disquietude for months 
thereafter. No more unfortunate 
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of the iuhabitauts hereabouts than 
the immediate and total withdraw- 
al of our troops, as stragglers and 
deserters fi'om both armies, now 
roaming through the forests conti- 
guous, would immediately organize 
into extensive bands of highway- 
men, and subject the people to all 
the terrors and apprehension at- 
tending the recipients of the visits 
of the redoutable Dick Turpin " in 
ye olden time." Tlie amount of 
private property in this vicinity and 
along the whole line of the road 
now receiving the attention and 
protection of picket guards furnish- 
ed by this corps is immense, and 
covers a large area of country. It 
is this magnanimous and generous 
attendance to the interests of the 
inhabitants that is winning them 
over to the fealty they forsook, and 
which will, as soon as the brief 
sting of pride attending their sub- 
jection wears off, cause them to 
look upon the old government and 
its administers as the source of all 
success and well-being. 

It would be a cowed and spirit- 
less race that took kindly and indif- 
ferently the dispensation that has 
been vouchsafed this unfortunate 
rebellion ; and that there exists a 
sensitiveness and petulance from 
the effect of the just though cruel 
blow which has wounded the pride 
of its participators is but natural, 
and cannot be stifled save by kindly 
approach and gentle treatment 

That the great body of the people 
we find here in the interior experi- 
ence heartfelt satisfaction at the 
end of the war I am positive, and 
that ultimately they will be 
brought to the grace from which, 



in an evil hour and amid unfortu- 
nate counsels, they fell, I am equal- 
ly sanguine. 

CAPTURED GUNS. 

A considerable portion of the 
guns captured by us in the late 
pursuit are now being daily receiv- 
ed here. Many of them are of very 
superior make, and are of the Ai-m- 
stroug pattern. 

GENERAL GRANTS BODY GUARD — 
" FOURTH REGULARS." 

This veteran regiment, from 
whose rank have sprung upwards of 
twenty generals, in commands m 
the service of the government and 
the rebellion, and among who:n 
were numbered Grant and Sheri- 
dan, arrived here this evening from 
the front, upon their way to join 
the Lieutenant General — whose 
body guard they are— having 
marched from Prospect Hill since 
eight o'clock in the morning — a dis- 
tance of thirty-three miles. They 
will probably take the train from 
this locality to City Point. The 
regiment is in command of Major 
CoUins. 

Prominent among the rumors of 
a movement of the Xinth corps is 
the report that it will be sent to 
Dan\'ille, about seventy miles from 
its present locality. Nothing has 
yet transpired to corroborate this 
supposition. Go where it may, the 
old Ninth corps will never refuse 
the " wager of battle " with anv an- 
tagonist courageous enough to con- 
front it. 

Mr. S. T. Bnlkley^s Despateli. 

Farmville, Ya.. April 9, 1865. 
the imiviense slaughter of the 
ene:vty. 
The slaughter of the enemy in the 



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fight of the 6th inst. exceeded any- 
thmg I ever saw. The grouud 
over which they fought was liter- 
ally strewn with theu- killed. The 
hgntiug was desperate, in many 
cases hand to hand. There were a 
number of cases of bayonet wounds 
reported at the hospitals. 

LIST OF REBEL OFFICERS CAPTLTIED 
ON THE 6th. 

I enclose a list of some of the 
rebel officers captured on the 6th : — 

Nacy. 
Admiral Hunter, Commodore 
Tucker, Captain Simms, Midship- 
man J. H. Hamilton, Lieutenant H. 
H, Marmaduke, Master W, R. Mayo, 
Midshipman C. F. Sevior, Midship- 
man T. M. Banen, Lieutenant C. L. 
Stanton, Lieutenant J. P. Clay- 
brook; John R. ChiEman, Master's 
Mate; Lieutenant M. G. Porter, 
Lieutenant R. J. Bowen, Lieutenant 
W. W. Roberts, Lieutenant J. W. 
Materson, Midshipman "W. P. Nel- 
son, Lieutenant M. M. Benton, 
Master's Mate, S. G. Turner; Lieu- 
tenant W. P. Shum, Lieutenant T. 
C. Pinckney, Captain T. B. Ball, 
Lieutenant H. Ward, Midshipman 
B. S Johnson, Midshipman P. L. 
Place, Lieutenant D. Tris^g, Mid- 
shipman T. Berein, Midshipman C. 
Myers, J. M Gardner. 

Marine Corps. 

Captain George Holens, Captain 
T. S. Wilson, Lieutenant P McKee, 
Lieutenant A. S. Berry, Lieutenant 
T. P. Gwinn 

Army Officprs. 

Lieut. Gen. Ewell, Gen. Corse, 
Gen. Barton, Gen. Hunton, Gen. J. 
P. Simons. Gpn. .T T BeBose. Gen. 
Custis Lee, Gen, Kershaw and staff, 



Col. C. C. Sanders, 24th Georgia • 
Lieut. Col. J. C. Timberlake, 53d 
Virginia; Lieut. N. «. Hutchens 
3d Georgia; Lieut. Col. Hamilton! 
Phil. Georgia Legion ; Maj. J. m' 
Goggen, Maj. E. L. Caston, Capt. J. 
M. Davis, Capt. Carwall, Capt. J 
W. Walker, A. A. G.; Capt. C. S. 
Dwight, Capt. McRae Cane, 16th 
Georgia; Col. Armstrong, 18th 
Georgia ; Capt. L. Bass, 25th Vir- 
ginia battery; Lieut. Col. E. P 
False, 22d Virginia battery , Maj 
P C. Smith, 24th Georgia; Capt. J. 
F. Tompkins, 22d Virginia ; Lieut. 
H. C. Tompkins, 22d Virginia ;• 
Capt. W. C. Winn, 22d Virgmia ; 
Adj. S. D. Davies, 47th Virginia , 
E. W. O. Gatewood, 37th Virginia , 
Adj. Williams, 3d Georgia sharp- 
shooters ; Lieut. J. L. Buford, Capt. 
J. L. Jarrett, 69th Virginia j Lieut. 
J. T. Fanneyhaugh, 20th Virginia 
battery , Capt. J. A. Haynes, 55th 
A^irginia , Capt. A. Reynolds. 55th 
Virginia; Capt J. H. Fleet, 55th 
Virginia; Capt. V H. Faulteroy, 
55th Virginia ; Lieut. W. C. Robin- 
son, 55th Virginia . Lieut. Thos. 
Faulteroy, 55th Virginia; Capt. R. 
T, Cland, 55th Virginia ; Adj. R. L. 
Williams, 55th Virginia ; Lieut. J. 
R. P. Humphries, 55th Virginia , 
Lieut. E. J. Ragland, 53d Virginia , 
Lieut. A. B. Willmgham, 53d Vir- 
£rinia ; Lieut. Col. T G Barbour, , 
24th Virginia , Capt. W F. Karri j 
son, 24th Virginia , Lieut. Col. Jas 
Howard, 18th and 20th Virginia 
battery, Capt A. Austin Smith, 
Ordnance Officer , Capt. McHenry j 
Howard, Gen. Custis Lee's staff, ^ 
Tiieat. J. F. Porteous, Ordnance 
Offioer; Mni. J. E Robertson, 20th J 
battery ; Capt. S. A, Overton, 20tb \ 



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Tirginia battery ; Capt. R. Iv. 
Hargo, 20th batt'ery; Lieut. C. W. 
Hunter, 20tli Virginia battery ; 
Lieut. J. H. Lewis, 20tli batter}' ; 
Lieut. A. G. Williams, 20tli Virginia 
battery ; Lieut. B. Scruggs, 20tli 
Virginia battery; Lieut. J. M. 
Snelson, 20th. Virginia battery; 
Lieut. E. Cofl&n, 20th Virginia; 
Lieut. Ferneyhough, 20th Virginia; 
Lieut. P. F. Vaden, 20th A^irginia ; 
Lieut. Col. A. D. Bruce, 47th Vir- 
ginia ; Capt. E. Wharton, 47th Vir- 
ginia ; Adj. S. G. Davies, 47th Vir- 
ginia ; Lieut. G. S. Hutt, 47th Vir- 
ginia ; Lieut. C. Molty, 47th Vir- 
ginia ; Lieut. Col. J. "W". Atkinson, 
10th and 19th A^irginia battalions, 
Lieut. J. L. Cowardin, Adjutant, 
10th and 19th Virginia battalions ; 
Capt. T. P. Wilkins, 10th and 19th 
Virginia battalions ; Capt. T. D. 
Blake, 10th and 19th "Virginia bat- 
talions ; Capt. R. B. Clayton, 10th 
and 19th Virginia battalions; Capt. 
C. S. Harrison, 10th and 19th Vir- 
ginia battalions ; Lieut. J. TV. 
Turner, 10th and 19th VirginiJa 
battalions ; Lieut. B. G. Andrews, 
10th and 19tli Virginia battalions ; 
Lieut. T. C. Talbott, 10th and 19th 
Virginia battalions ; Lieut. A. P. 
Bohannan, Adj. Wilson, 10th and 
19th Virginia battalions, wounded ; 
Capt. J. H. Xorton, 18th Virginia ; 
Lieut. W. Stevenson, IStliA^irginia ; 
Lieut. Jos. Russell, 18th Virginia ; 
Lieut. S. Doridian, 18th Virginia; 
Capt. D. L. Smoot, 18th Virginia ; 
Col. J. J. Phillips, 9th Virginia; 
Adj. C. T. Phillips, 9th Virginia; 
Lieut. W. Roane Ruffin, Chamber- 
lin's battery ; Capt. B. E. Coltrans, 
9th Virginia ; Lieut. P. E. Vaden, 
20th. Vii'ginia ; Capt. J. W. Barr, 



Ban battery ; Lieut. W. F. Camp- 
bell, Barr batteiy ; Capt. H. Nelson, 
28th Virginia ; Lieut C. K. Nelson, 
28th Virginia; Lieut. J. B. Left- 
with, 28th Virginia; Lieut. J.N. 
Kent, 22d Virginia battalion; 
Lieut. H. C. Shepherd, 22d Virginia 
battalion; Lieut. J. E. Glosseu,47th 
Virginia; Lieut. R. P. Welling, 
12th Mississijipi ; Chaplain E. A. 
Garrison, 48th Mississippi; Lieut. 
Robert T. Knox, 30th Virginia; 
Lieut. J. H. Marshall, 30th Virginia; 
Capt. J. S. Knox, 30th Virginia; 
Lieut. St. George Fitzhugh, Pe- 
gram artillery ; Lieut. T. L. Rob- 
erts, 34th Vii-ginia ; Lieut. J. S. 
Watts, 46th Virginia ; J. T. Fowler, 
4Gtli Virginia ; Maj. M. B. Hardin, 
18th Virginia battalion ; Adj. Vv^. H. 
Laughter, 18th Virginia battalion; 
Capt. W. S. Griffin, 18th Virginia 
battalion ; Chaplain L. B. Madison, 
58th Virginia ; Lieut. Jiidson Hun- 
dron, Lieut. J. F. Oyler, 58th Vir- 
ginia ; Lieut. John Addison, 17th 
Virginia infantiy ; Lieut. Col. G. 
Tyler, 17th Virginia infantry; 
Lieut. J. B. Hill, 53d Virginia; 
Sergt. Maj. J. S. Miller, 20th 
Virginia battalion ; Lieut. M. 
H. Daughty, 11th Florida; Capt. 
Winder, Young battery ; Lieut. J, 
C. Murray, Young battery ; Capt. 
W. S. Randall, Gen. C. Lee's staff • 
Col. J. T. Crawford, 51st Georgia ; 
Col. James Dickey, 51st Georgia; 
Capt. W. R. McClain,51st Georgia; 
Capt. J. H. Faulkner, 51st Georgia ; 
Capt. R. N. Askrow, 51st Georgia ; 
Capt. V. B. Baglow, 51st Georgia ; 
Lieut. J. A. Brown, 51st Georgia; 
Lieut. C. W. S. Swanson, Capt. H. 
J. Otis, 2d N. C; Evans' Brigade; 
Lieut. P. A. Green, 3d Georgia; 



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Capt W. G. Baird, 24tli North 
Carolina ; Col, P. McLaughlin, 5Clli 
Georgia; Capt. W. A. Smith, 50th 
Georgia; Capt. E. Fahn, 50th 
Georgia; Lieut. Thompson, 33l]i 
North Carolina ; Lieut. Thompson, 
35th North Carolina ; Lieut. J. P. 
Percell, 56th Virginia. 
incidents. 

From different sources I have 
gathered a number of interesting 
incidents, which I give below : 
souvenirs of ,rebeldom. 

Many have been the souvenirs of 
rebeldom gathered on this march. 
A drummer in the One Hundred 
and Fourty-sixth New York ha; 
picked up the niajor general's com- 
mission of General Kershaw. Gen. 
Mahone's commission was also 
found. Dr. Lord, surgeon of the 
One Hundred and Fortieth New 
York, found seven hundred and 
fifty dollars in rebel money, and, 
what is more remarkable, a sur- 
geon's sash, which he presented, 
after his capture at Chancelors- 
ville, to a surgeon in the rebel 
army. There were immutable 
marks on the sash admitting no 
doubt of its authenticity; besides, 
its being found in a desk, filled 
with papers and letters of the rebel 
surgeon to whom he had originally 
donated it. Of letters, pistols and 
sabres, there was no end of appro- 
priation. Among revolvers was a 
thirteen-barreled one. The most 
stupendous story of all is finding 
a twenty dollar gold piece. If the 
confederacy is not ruined, one man 
in it certainly is by the loss of this 
much of suriferous metal. Since 
writing the above I am told that a 
box was found containing one 



thousand dollars in gold, and a pay- 
master's safe containing two hund- 
red and fifty thousand dollars in 
rebel scrip. 

HEADQUARTERS SIGNAL CORPS. 

A brilliant exploit was accom- 
plished during one of the late fights 
by Captain Renyaurd and Lieuten- 
ant Miles, Fifth corps headquarters' 
signal officers, and the signal corps 
under them. Advancing ahead of 
our skirmishers they captured a 
rebel signal detachment, seven al. 
together, including a captain, their 
commanding officer. In addition to 
this they also captui-ed two naval 
officers and an engineer on a flying- 
exodus from Richmond. 

TO WHAT BASE USES AT LAST. 

Our boys got possession of two 
battle flags. One lay partially con- 
cealed in a ditch by the roadside, 
and the other was one of a hetero- 
genous list of articles stowed away 
in an old canvass bag, which, with 
its contents, had been thrown away. 
"We read of base uses and the con- 
tingency of the dust of the great 
Cajsar stopping a rat hole ; but here 
we had a tangible exhibition of an 
ignobility of end and depth of 
descending that any modern be- 
liever in Southern braggadocio 
would have believed impossible, un- 
less the aforesaid rebel flags were 
surrounded by a hecatomb of rebel 
corpses and dyed with the chivalric 
blood of their defenders. 

GALLANTRY. 

Corporal Payne, of the Second 
New York, captured three battle 
flags and thirty-five prisoners. 

Lieutenant Custer, the General's 
brother, captured another flag, but 



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iu doing so received a severe 
wound in the cheek ; but after be- 
ing- hit he seized the colors, then 
shot the man who hit him, and es- 
caped, bringing the flag with him. 

THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL EWELL. 

Gen. Ewell and six of his staff 
were captured by two men— Capt. 
Stevens and private James Coppin- 
ger, both of Company B, First New 
York. 

THE WOUNDED. 

Gen. Mott, while leading the 
Third division, Second corps, on 
April 6, was shot in the leg and 
came to the rear. 

Col. Starbird, Nineteenth Maine, 
was wounded, probably mortall}', in 
an attack of the skirmish line on 
the evening of the 7th. 



The T'wenty-fourth Corps and the 
Capture of Richmond. 

To the Editor of the Herald : 

Richmond, Va., April 8, 1865. 
Will you please insert and cor- 
rect an error which appears in youi- 
Twenty-fifth corps correspondent's 
report of the advance upon and oc- 
cupation of Richmond 1 If allowed 
tt) go uncontradicted the great 
credit claimed and justly earned by 
the Twenty-fourth army corps is 
carried off by sufferance to the 
Twenty-fifth corps. The facts in 
the case are as follows : — The 
skirmish line of the Twenty-fourth 
corps, composed in part of the 
Ninth Vermont and the Eighty- 
first New York, were at least an 
hoiu- in the advance of the skii'mish 
line of the Twenty-fifth corps. Cap- 
tain J. R. Angel's light battery, K, 
Third New York artillery, closed 
upon the skirmish line in the ad- 
vance, and as work after work and 



fort after fort was approached the 
colors of battery K, in the hands of 
Captain Angel, were planted promi- 
nently thereon and then advanced 
to the next. Finally the city of 
Richmond was reached, and the 
colors of battery K were unfurled 
on the steps of the Capitol two 
hours and thirty minutes before 
the colors of any other battery. 

When the main body of the two 
corps moved upon Richmond the 
Twenty-fourth was also ahead. 

JUSTICE. 



ITE WSPAPER ACCOUITTS. 

The Rebel General R. E. Lee Re- 
ported in Richmond. 

[From the Eichmond Whig, April 13.] 

We learn that Robert E. Lee ar- 
rived m the city last night. 



The Rebel Generals Rosser and Fitz- 
hugh Lee Refuse to Surrender. 

[From the Eichmond Whig, April 13.] 

Generals Rosser and Fitzhugli 
Lee refused to abide by the terms 
of surrender', it is said, and made 
their escape, unattended, to " parts 
unknown." 



The Number of Men Surrendered by- 
Lee. 

[From the Eichmond Whig, April 13.] 

The number of men surrendered 
by Gen. Lee is stated to be twenty- 
five thousand, of whom only eight 
thousand had muskets. The rest 
had thrown away their arms during 
the forced marches into the in- 
terior. 



How the Obstacles to the Ccrdial Re- 
union of the People of the North 
and South Are IBeing Removed by 
Our Soldiers. 

IFrom the Kichmond Whig, April 13.] 

Now, when it has become ap- 



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parent that the Union will be pre- 
served, and that the Southern 
States will resume their relations to 
the sisters whose companionship 
they renounced in an evil hour of 
blindness and passion, it is well to 
consider what obstacles still oppose 
a cordial reunion, and whether they 
may not be removed. 

Among these obstacles, perhaps 
none is greater than the idea which 
has been sedulously inculcated by 
the designing advocates of discord 
for many years, that the people of 
the Northern and Southern sec- 
tions hate each other with inex- 
tinguishable enmity, and that this 
hatred is so deeply founded in the 
habits, tastes and opinions of the 
people that it cannot be eradicated. 
Nothing has contributed more to 
keep up the resistance of the South- 
ern people than the teachings of 
those who declared that the North 
was inspired with a feeling of en- 
mity and revenge so bitter that 
nothing would satisfy her people 
except the utter ruin of Southern 
homes, the desolation of Southern 
families, and the destruction of all 
that made life worth preserving. 

The passions kindled by the war, 
and the deeds of rapine and viol- 
ence on both sides to which the 
war has given birth, have for a 
long time prevented us from de- 
veloping the real sentiments of hu- 
manity and kindness to which 
thousands will happily return now 
■when the blood-red flames of the 
conflict are beginning to subside. 

We feel sure that even the most 
embittered secessionist ivill acknoivledge 
that the conduct of the United States 
officers and soldiers in Richmond has 



been not only considerate and humane, 
but adapted to insinre confidence and 
kindness in return. And, with the 
prospect of returning peace, the 
sentiments of the people of the 
North are beginning to appear in 
forms which ought to elicit corre- 
sponding feelings. 

The prompt action of the Chris- 
tian Commission in supplying aU 
the destitute among us with food 
certainly does not savor of a spirit 
of hatred and revenge. We have 
heard of various expressions of 
good feeling from many Northern 
communities, which will speedily 
be manifested, we are sure, in more 
substantial forms than mere words. 

When contrasted with the reck- 
less spirit of destruction and disregard 
ofjjrivate rights and property exhibited 
by the leaders of disunion, even to the 
very hour of their final flight from 
Virginia, these developments of 
kindness and sympathy from those 
who were lately reckoned as ene- 
mies of the South will not fail to 
work a change in many minds. 

We earnestly exhort the people 
of the South to dismiss rancor from 
their hearts, to believe what is un- 
doubtedly true, that their brethren 
of the North desii-e to live with them 
in the bonds of peace, and to culti- 
vate a spirit of conciliation and f or- 
l)earance, which will soon bear the 
richest fruits. 



The Duty of All Virginians to Sub- 
mit to tlie United States Authori- 
ties. 

[From the Richmond Whig, April 13] 

The duty of all true Yirginians is 
perfectly apparent. Whatever may 
have been their previous views and 
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acknowledge at once the authority 
of the United States government, 
and that they owe full allegiance 
to it. The slightest hesitation in 
regard to this matter can but still 
further complicate the difficulty of 
the situation and throw additional 
obstacles in the way of a speedy re- 
turn to that quietude and freedom 
from restraint that are essential to 
enable the people to recover from the 
blighting effect which this unhappy 
war has had on every interest in 
this State. The course of the authori- 
ties and of the soldiers in this city is 
ivell calculated to inspire confidence in 
their desire to see harmony and frater- 
nal feeling restored in our common 
country ; and we feel confident that 
our people in every section of the State 
will freely respond, and do all in their 
power to bring about a consumma- 
tion which will be fraught with so 
much happiness and good. 



IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO- 



SuFPendep of the Cbief Army of 
Juarez in Central Mexico, &c., &c. 

Cairo, 111., April 14, 1865, 
New Orleans advices of the 8th 
inst. are received. 

The True Delta claims to have of- 
ficial intelligence that General 
Rheagena, commanding the chief 
army of Juarez in Central Mexico, 
has abandoned the contest. His 
whole army has given up fighting 
and returned to their homes. 



Ne-w^s from Chihuahua. 

To the Editor of the Herald : 

New York, April 13, 1865. 
From a letter received from a 



friend in the city of Chihuahua, 
Mexico, the following items are 
gleaned : — 

Juarez and his cabinet are still, 
as they for a long time have been, 
in that city. The republican forces 
with the President number about 
one thoiTsand five huudi-ed men. 
The nearest imperial troops is a 
force of six hundred, which has 
for some time been stationed at 
the town of Cerro Gordo, in 
the State of Durango, but quite 
near the Chihuahua line. They at 
one time entered the latter State, 
visiting the towns of Valle and 
Parral, but making no progress, 
were soon withdrawn. 

A Mr. Leaton, from Passo del 
Norte, is recruiting Americans for 
service under the Juarez banner, 
and has ah'eady enrolled about 
seventy-five. General Gonzala Or- 
tega, of the republican army, passed 
thi-ough the city of El Paso a short 
time ago, on his Wiiy to the United 
States, on special business from the 
President. Colonel Heintz, a Hun- 
garian in the republican army, was 
also in the above mentioned city at 
the same time, on his way to Cali- 
fornia, for the purpose of raising a 
force of a thousand or fifteen hun- 
dred men in that State for services 
under President Juarez. 

The enclosed printed slip is an 
official announcement by the Juarez 
government of a victory gained by 
that brave republican partisan 
leader Corona, over a detachment of 
imperial soldiers, and has not yet 
reached us here by the ordinary 
channels of communication. 



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Huzza for National Independence.— 
Honor to tbe State of Sinaloa.— 
Tbanks to General Corona. 

The government has received the 
welcome intelligence, officially, that 
the valiant General Corona, after 
inflicting considerable loss on the 
road upon the French forces march- 
ing from Durango to Mazatian, has 
completely defeated one hundred 
Chasseurs des Vincemies (French 
sharpshooters) at the town of Ver- 
anos — those who did not fall in 
action being shot. Particulars are 
in press, and will be published 
forthwith. 

Chihuahua, Feb, 3, 1865. 



NEWS FROM NASSAU. 



Arrival of the Steamship Corsica. 

The steamship Corsica, Captain 
L. Mesui'ier, from Havana on the 
8th, and Nassau on the 10th inst., 
arrived yesterday morning. 

The French bark Eugene of Mar- 
seilles, with a cargo of about 3,000 
bags of coffee, 2.000 pieces of maho- 
gany (crotch) about 1,200 pounds 
wax, 1,800 dried hides, and about 
30 tons of logwood, was totally 
wrecked on the northeast point of 
Great Inagua on the morning of 
the 25th of February last. The 
captain and part of the crew were 
saved; the mate and two seamen 
were drowned. The blockade run- 
ner Banshee, with 1,000 bales of 
cotton, arrived at Nassau on the 
30th from Galveston. She reports 
Galveston garisoned by twelve hun- 
dred troops Twelve Union ships 
were off the bar. Six steamers had 
sailed recently from Havana for 
Galveston. 



FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE 

STEAMSHIP CORSICA FROM 

HAVANA. 

A terrible accident oecui-red on 
board the steamer Corsica, on her 
late passage from Havana to this 
port, which resulted in the death of 
two pel sons and seriously injuring 
three others. It appears that, when 
four hours out from port, a barrel 
of spirits was about being lowered 
into the lower hold, when, owing to 
some wTong management m ar- 
ranging the slings, the barrel 
slipped and fell with great force 
into the hold, where it immediately 
burst. The storekeeper, Mr. John 
Hughes, who was in the hold at the 
time, with several others, upon see- 
ing the occurrence, went immedia- 
tely to the barrel, and having a 
lighted candle in his hand, it set 
fire to the spirits, which exploded, 
killing Mr. Hughes instantly and 
mortally wounding the carpenter, 
Mr. E. McNeal, who died on Thurs- 
day night. Three others of the 
crew, named Mitchell, Thompson 
and Murphy, are seriously injured, 
but will recover. The passengers 
held a meeting on board for the 
relief of the sufferers, whereupon 
some eight hundred dollars were 
subscribed. 



The "War on the Guerillas. 

Cairo, April 14, 18G5. 
The rebel Colonel Forrest and 
staff arrived at Memphis, under the 
flag of truce granted by General 
Wright, for the purpose of confer- 
ring with General "Washburne upon 
the subject of exterminating 
guerillas. The result of the con- 
ference IS not known. 



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SHERMAN. 



ais Army Moving.— The March Be- 
gun on the 9th Instant.— Sherman's 
First Speech.— Johnson's Army 
VTest of Raleigh.— Only His Cavalry 
Holding the Capital of the State.— 
He Is Endeavoring to Form a Junc- 
tion with Lee.— The Ram Albe- 
marle Raised in Good Condition.— 
Occupation of Murfreesboro, N. C, 
by Our Fleet, &c., &c., &c. 

Our Special "Washington Despatch. 

Washington, April 14, 1865. 

Reliable inf ormatiou has beeu re- 
ceived here from GolJsboro to the 
10th, iustant. General Shermau 
started from Goldsboro early on 
the morning of the 10th, moving to 
Raleigh. There was no fighting 
except the usnal skirmishing. It 
was General Sherman's expectation 
that he would reach Raleigh in four 
days. 

Daily communication will be kept 
up with the army, and the railroad 
will be repaired at once. 



Mr. D. P. Conyngham's Despatch. 

Xewbern, N. C, April 11, 1865. 

THE NEWS OF THE FALL OF RICH- 
MOND IN SHERMAN'S ARMY. 

Sherman's veterans testified their 
rejoicings at the fall of Richmond 
in the most noisy and frenzied 
manner. At night the men took it 
into their heads to improvise a 
general salute by putting powder 
into hoUow logs and blowing them 
up. This, accompanied by the 
cheers of the men, the capering of 
dancing negroes, who appeared to 
be bit by tarantulas, and the music 
of several bands, made the scene 
enlivening enough. 

SHEr::^rAN makes a speech. 
A crowd of soldiers and citizens, 



accompanied by a band, made a 
favorable demonstration in front of 
General Sherman's headquarters. 
They loudly and vociferously called 
for the General. He had to make 
his appearance, and, after thanking 
the men, said . 

" We have glorious news, sol- 
diers. Richmond is ours, and the 
rebel army is broken up and de- 
moralized. I have a letter from 
General Grant, in which he says 
that he is pursuing Lee, and wishes 
to have us press Johnson, which I 
think we'll do. (Cries of ' We will, 
we will.') We don't mean to let 
him rest, so be j^repared for the 
march in a few days." 

Loud cheers were given for Sher- 
man, for Grant and his army, and 
the men returned to their quarters 
congratulating one another. 

THE AR^SYY ON THE IMARCH. 

On the afternoon of the 9th a 
part of Schofield's column took up 
their line of march, and yesterday 
morning the whole army broke 
camp and debouched from the dif- 
ferent encampments around Golds- 
boro into column along the dif- 
ferent lines of march. 

organization OF THE ARMY. 

The army is divided into three 
different columns — one under Gen- 
eral Slocum, another under General 
Schofield, and the third under Gen- 
eral Howard. The men are in ex- 
cellent condition and spirits, eager 
to meet the enemy to wind up " the 
darned affair." 

JOHNSTON'S POSITION. 

Johnston's army has occupied a 
line of intrenchments along the 
Neuse river, some twenty miles 



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from Goldsboro, but lias fallen back 
within a few days west of Raleigh. 
Colonel Spencer, Third brigade, 
Kilpatrick's cavalrj^, sent some or- 
derlies towards Raleigh. They got 
to the rear of Hampton's cavalry 
and ascertained that Johnston had 
evacuated the town, and that it was 
occupied by four or five thousand 
cavalry. Hampton had his head- 
quarters eight miles east of Raleigh, 
on the Smithfield and Raleigh road. 
Johnston is reported gone to Greens- 
boro, on the junction of the Danville 
and Charlotte road. It is evident 
that he is trying to form a junction 
with Lee, and will then fall back to 
Western Georgia and Alabama. 
They have important arsenals at 
Macon, Columbus and Augusta. 
They cannot strike for Eastern Ten- 
nessee, as Thomas is heading them 
off there, so their route will be 
through North and South Carolina 
and Georgia. 

I do not expect immediate fight- 
ing, except what the cavalry will 
make. 

STATE OF THE CONFEDERACY. 

I have just laid hands on a 
Raleigh Covfederate of April 7, in 
which was Jeff. Davis' last procla- 
mation from his new capital, which 
I have telegraphed. Though he ad- 
mits that the fall of Richmond will 
have a serious moral effect, still he 
thinks it is in reality no great loss, 
as it leaves Lee's army free for 
active operations anywhere. He 
states that '' our army will be free 
to move from point to point." That 
is true, for they are now rapidly 
moving each on his own hook, and 
giving up the confederacy as a 



e'oue coon. 



The Confederate goes it strong on 
the Conservalive, Governor Vance's 
organ, for suggesting that overtures 
for peace should be made to the 
Union government. There is a civil 
war in the camp, and it is fast be- 
coming a Kilkenny catawauling 
affair. 

INCIDENTS OF SHERMAN'S MARCH. 

Towards the evening of the 10th 
Major General Howard, staff, escort 
and some mounted infantry were in 
advance, when they struck some rebel 
cavalry, who opened on them, kill- 
ing a horse of one of the General's 
staff and wounding some men. The 
General himself had a narrow es- 
cape. His men charged on the 
rebels, and captured about one 
hundred and two pieces of artillery. 

A PAYIM ASTER NEARLY CAPTURED. 

On the 9th Major Fulsifer was 
passing from Wilmington to Golds- 
boro, when he stopped to pay the 
troops at Burgan, some twenty 
miles from Wilmington. The troops 
had moved forward that morning, 
except a squad of nineteen men, 
under Lieutenant Colonel Parker. 
The Major followed up the troops, 
and towards evening a troop of 
rebel cavalry swept into the town, 
gobbling up the little force there 
and the telegraph operator. They 
stopped the latter and made him 
cut the wires. They partially in- 
jured the bridge. 

THE CONDITION OF SHERMAN'S ARMY. 

When Sherman struck Goldsboro 
the army was shoeless and ragged, 
but they are now thoroughly clad 
and refitted. Brigadier General 
Easton, who is chief quartermaster 
to the army, was busily engaged 



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tiurrying forward supplies, while 
Sherman was making his sweeping 
march from Savannah. He had es- 
tablished depots at Beaufort, More- 
head City and other points, and as 
soon as Sherman reached Golds- 
boro supplies were rapidly for- 
warded to him. Several hundred 
cars were plying backward and for- 
ward, and when the army started it 
had thirty days' rations on hand 
and such ?. surplus of clothes that 
some had to be returned. 

As supplies are the sustaining 
power of an army, too much praise 
cannot be bestowed on General Eas- 
ton for his indefatigible and suc- 
cessful administration. 

COLONEL WRIGHT, 

Chief Engineer of Railroads, has 
done much in assisting the Quarter- 
master's Department by the rapid 
manner in which he put the rail- 
road in order. The railroad from 
here to Goldsboro is as safe for 
travelling purposes as any of the 
New York lines. 

Tracks were laid, bridges built 
and communication opened with 
wonderful celerity, under the man- 
agement of Colonel "Wright. 

As we are going to keep a base 
open, it is of the utmost importance 
to have such men at the head of 
affairs. 

There have been some changes 
made in commanders. Colonel 
Patrick Jones has returned from 
New York, with the well merited 
rank of brigadier, to his brigade, 
Second brigade, Second division. 
Twentieth corps. Few officers have 
done more to merit a star than 
General Jones. 

Colonel Mendel, Thirty-third New 



Jersey, has been appointed chief of 
General Slocum's staff, ranking as 
brigadier. 

Colonel Schofield, brother of Gen- 
eral Schofield, has been appointed 
brigadier general and chief of hi& 
brothei^'s staff. 

Brigadier General C. C. Wolcotfe 
has been promoted from the com- 
mand of a brigade to the command 
of the First division, Fourteenth 
army corps. 

Captain John L. Hover has been 
promoted to a majority. 

Captain Hovey and two men cap- 
tured seventy-eight men and offi- 
cers near Goldsboro. He struck on 
them, persuaded them that they 
were surrounded, and actually 
frightened them into a surrender. 

Lieutenant L. B. Mitchel, ord- 
nance officer, Fifteenth army corps, 
promoted to be captain and aid on 
General Ayres' staff. 

Major Max WoodhuU, Adjutant 
General, Fifteenth army corps, has 
been promoted to a lieutenant 
colonelcy. 

Lieutenant W. H. Barlow, Quar- 
termaster, promoted to a captaincy 
and assistant quartermaster. 

Captain Montgomery Rochester, 
Assistant Adjutant General on Gen- 
eral Sherman's staff, has been 
assigned to duty as assistant adju- 
tant general of the army of Georgia, 
General Slocum commanding. 
This will give Captain Rochester 
the silver leaf. Captain Rochester 
is an old and distinguished officer, 
having been all through the war 
from the first Bull Run fight. The 
Captain well deserves his promotion . 

Brigadier General Webster has 
just returned to Newbern from the 



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front. General Webster, as Chief 
of General Sherman's staff, is about 
establishing his headquarters at 
Newbern. The General's reputa- 
tion and executive abilities are too 
well known to need any comment. 
During Sherman's important At- 
lantic campaign he ably managed 
the bureau at Nashville. 

Captain W. R. Tuttle accom- 
panied the General. He is chief of 
conductors on the military railroads. 
His efacient services in Tennessee 
are sufficient guarantee that the mi- 
litary management of the railroads 
i]i North Carolma will be ably con- 
ducted. 

General Charles Crufts and staff 
have returned from his command 
of the detachments of the army of 
the Cumberland which had been 
left in Tennessee, and which he 
brought out to the command of his 
division. 

THE REBEL RAJVI ALBEMARLE. 

The celebrated rebel ram Albe- 
marle has been raised by Messrs. 
Underwood & Co., and is now lying 
in North river, a' the mouth of the 
canal, waiting to be towed into 
Norfolk. They have been nearly 
one month in getting her up. It 
will be recollected +.hat this monster 
was blown up by a torpedo, on the 
27th of October, 1 864, by Lieuten- 
ant Gushing and eleven men. 

She is not seriously injured. 
Much of her plating had to be re- 
moved to lighten her. Her guns, 
which were two one hundred- 
pounder Brook rifle guns, English 
manufacture, had been taken off by 
Captain Macomb, in charge of the 
fleet, and sent to Washington. Her 
boilers and machinery are unin- 



jured, and she is at present under 
steam. The Albemarle was one of 
the most formidable rams of the 
confederacy, and was built at Hali- 
fax, N. C. She has several inden- 
tations in her sides from the dif- 
ferent shots and shells fired into 
her, and an unexploded shell was 
found buried under her iron plat- 
ing. She had twenty- eight inches 
of timber and four inches of plat- 
ing. She is a regular leviathan, 
and can be put in full repair at a 
very small cost. In her were found 
officers' clothing, arms and twenty 
eight cans of powder uninjured. 
She had Liverpool coal on board, 
which must have run the blockade. 

THE LAST OF THE REBEL RAJMS. 

The new rebel ram, which had 
been building at Halifax, and was 
anxiously expected to commence 
operations, was discovered on the 
8th instant, near Plymouth, a regu 
lar shell, having been burned to the 
waters edge. The pickets near Ply 
mouth saw her coming down the 
river and gave the alarm. Colonel 
Fronkle turned out a squadron of 
cavalry and two sections of artil 
lery to charge on her, but they 
found her helplessly lying against 
the obstructions, where they placed 
guards over her, where she now re- 
mains. Thus died the last of the 
rebel rams. 

AN EXPEDITION TO MURFREES- 
BORO, N. C. 

The Shamrock flagship, Comman- 
der Macomb ; the Wychusmg, Val- 
ley City and Hunchback went up 
the Chowan river to Winston, with 
the intention of covering the cross- 
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which was to operate towards the 
Weldon railroad. The cavalry ad 
vance guard found the enemy in 
position at Winston, but the fleet 
opened on them, soon scattering 
them. The fleet then ferried over 
the troops to the south side of the 
river, and then proceeded to Mnr- 
freesboro, on the Meherrin river, 
about eighteen miles from Weldon. 
The sailors took possession of the 
town, the Mayor formally surren- 
dering it to Commander McComb. 

Next day the cavalry charged 
about twenty-five rebel cavalry into 
the town and captured them. 

Murfreesboro is a good sized 
town, and is taken possession of 
now for the first time by the Yanks. 
The fleet returned to Winston and 
Plymouth, where it is now lying. 

Our New^bern Correspondence. 

Newbern, N- C, April 10, '65. 

THE ARMY LT^DER ORDERS TO MOVE. 

Some portions of Sherman's army 
received orders three or four days 
ago to be in readiness for marching 
orders, and it was the original in- 
tention that the army should move 
on the 7th. Grant's successes, how 
ever, have somewhat changed the 
programme, and, although the time 
of moving is delayed a day or two, 
yet there will not be much differ 
ence in the results. Some of the 
army, the Seventeenth corps parti- 
cularly, were to have commenced 
moving this morning, and as John- 
ston IS now said to be making off 
in the direction of Danville and 
Hillsboro, and Grant is pushing in 
the direction of Lynchburg or Dan- 
ville (at this writing), of course 



Sherman will also take a step in 
that direction. 

Since the burning of the vessels 
on the Neuse river a few mornings 
since, no further demonstrations 
have been made on our communi- 
cations. That was an insignificant 
affair, comparatively, and a small 
guard could easily have prevented 
it. The raiders also burned the 
upper works of the steamer Mystic, 
which was sunk in the river a fort- 
night since. All but her upper 
works was under water, and her 
damage, therefore, is slight. It is 
also reported that the small steamer, 
General Shepley, was burned at the 
same time, but I have not heard 
this confii-med as yet These inter- 
ruptions do not interfere at all with 
the sending forward of supplies. 

I mentioned in my last that Gen- 
eral Howard had established his 
business headquarters here, al- 
though the General himself has re- 
turned to the front. Since then 
General Easton, Chief Quarter- 
master Military Division of the 
Mississippi, has also removed his 
headquarters to this place, and Gen- 
eral Beckwith, Chief Commissary 
of Sherman's army, has also done 
the same. General Sherman's busi- 
ness headquarters (aside from his 
field headquarters at Goldsboro) 
are also to be established here, hav- 
ing arrived yesterday. These straws, 
together with the fact, that other 
prominent officers connected with 
Sherman's army are establishing 
themselves here, are taken by many 
as indications that this is to be con- 
tinued as a base for some time yet, 
with perhaps Raleigh as the ex- 
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if Sherman cliooses to move on 
that line. 

TRAINS TO GOLDSBORO. 

Two regular trains are running 
daily now to Goldsboro, and gen- 
erally one or more extra trains ad- 
ditionally. The road is open also 
direct to Wilmington from Golds- 
boro, and trains are making those 
trips every day. Some very good 
passenger cars that were captured 
by General Terry at Faison's depot, 
when he was on the march to join 
Schofield and Sherman, are now 
being used by us between here and 
Goldsboro, and between the latter 
place and Wilmington. 

THE OLD steamer LONG ISLAND 
REBUILT. 

Lieutenant Bradley, to whom 
Captain Wing, Chief Quartermaster 
of this post, has assigned a good 
portion of the duties that formerly 
devolved upon Captain Kimball, 
promoted to the position of depot 
quartermaster for Sherman's army 
at this point, relaunched the old 
Long Island last Saturday. She 
was a sidewheel steamer that was 
partially burned a year or so ago, 
and has been rebuilt in the govern- 
ment yard here. The launch was a 
successful one, and the boat is, or 
will be, a credit to the workmen 
whom Lieutenant Bradley keeps 
employed in the boat building de- 
partment. 

the white AND BLACK NORTH 
CAROLINA refugees. 

The number of white and black 
refugees that are coming in here 
now by the railroad, from the coun- 
try surrounding Goldsboro and this 



side of there, is immense. The 
whites are generally of a class who 
have evidently seen better days. 
Some of them bring along a few 
articles of furniture, and perhaps a 
poverty-stricken cow or horse, but 
no contrabands. The latter have 
learned to look out for themselves, 
and from the number of old beds, 
chairs, cooking utensils, and rub- 
bish of every description that they 
bring in with them, one natuialiy 
infers that they have also ieai-niu 
to look out for something else be- 
sides themselves. The negroes have 
had a new camp estabUsherl tor 
them, a little way outside of the 
fortifications surrounding the town. 
They are given land to work and 
materials to work with, and they 
generally manage to support them- 
selves pretty comfortably. When 
the males are able-bodied they arc 
given work on the railroads, or by 
the quartermasters in some of their 
departments. The whites are most- 
ly taken care of, when they desire 
it, by Dr. Page, superintendent of 
white refugees, and also chief agent 
here of. the Sanitary Commission. 
The doctor rations them and se- 
cures employment for them when it 
is possible. The town is filling up 
with these whites, some of whom 
have lived here before, but who re- 
turn to find Uncle Samuel in pos- 
session of their property, and no 
rent coming from it, of course. 
Others, who have lost their all, have 
come hither to get nearer the sea 
coast, in the hopes of finding the i 
staff of life plentier, or of discover- 
ing some more quiet spot than they 
have been living in under the de- 
spotism of Jeff. Davis. Poor creat- 



KELIC OP THE REBEKLiO^Ni. 



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iires, with all the past against them 
they are to be pitied beyond any- 
thing I could say for them. Of the 
blacks there must be fully fifteen 
thousand in the city and adjoining 
it in the outskirts. They reconcile 
themselves to their new situation 
more readily, and attribute all 
their troubles to the goodness of 
" Father Abraham," and their 
Maker, both of whom they devoutly 
believe to be working out the prob- 
lem of their deliverance. 

A CURIOUS ARirr MAIL. 

Mr. Chas. Hibbard, our assistant 
postmaster in this city, informs me 
that a few days since they sent off 
a mail from Sherman's army which 
numbered two hundred and thirty 
thousand letters and packages. The 
''bummers" evidently know how 
to read and write. The mail from 
that army averages about sixty 
thousand at every departure. It is 
a curiosity to look at some of the 
packages, which are certain to be 
sent to the dead letter office, they 
being contraband of the mail. 

Fifteen hundred of Wheeler's 
cavalry came into Goldsboro yes- 
terday, it is said, and surrendered 
themselves prisoners of war. 



Vance will call the Legislature to- 
gether for the purpose of repealing 
the act of secession, and restoring 
North Carolina to the Union. 



Tlie Charge Against Gen. Capring- 
ton. 

CixcixxATi, April 1-1, 1865. 
Gen. Carrington has published a 
card, saying that the charges 
against him are all infamous at- 
tempts to obliterate the credit of 
his services in Indiana. His friends 
say the matter grew out of a mis- 
undfcx-standing with paymasters, 
and that all the money for which 
he is responsible is deposited in the 
bank, ready to be handed over. 



Oup Goldsbopo Coppespondence. 

Goldsboro, N. C, April 7, '65. 
A report has just been received 
from Raleigh, stating that Governor 



Died. 

Carter. — On Friday evening, 
April 14, Elizabeth, relict of Sam- 
uel Carter, in the 83d year of her 
age. 

The relatives and friends of the 
family are respectfully invited to 
attend the funeral, from her late 
residence. No. 701 Second avenue, 
near Thirty-eight street, on Monday 
afternoon, at one o'clock. 

Philadelphia papers please copy. 

Kearney. — At Nashville, Tenn., 
on Saturday, April 8, Susan, wife 
of the late Edward Kearney, of 
Carndonagh, county Donegal, Ire- 
land. 

Notice of the funeral hereafter. 




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